1st Edition

Ariane Mnouchkine

By Judith Miller Copyright 2018
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

Over the last forty years, French director Ariane Mnouchkine and her theater collective, Le Théâtre du Soleil, have devised a form of research and creation that is both engaged with contemporary history and committed to reinvigorating theater by focusing on the actor. Now revised and reissued, this volume combines: ● an overview of Mnouchkine’s life, work and theatrical influences ● an... Read more

 

    1. INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC BIOGRAPHY: NOMAD OF THE IMAGINATION
    2. Beginnings

      Mnouchkine and her times

      Theatrical influences and affinities

    3. IDEAS ON THEATER: THEATER AS COLLECTIVE HISTORY AND
    4. THE QUEST FOR FORM

      Theoretical propositions

       The creative process 

      Paradoxes and tensions

    5. FOUR KEY PRODUCTIONS: MNOUCHKINE’S "FANATICALLY THEATRICAL"
    6. 1789: collective creation, audience involvement, and comedic form

      Richard II: mythic storytelling, hybridizing Asia, and geometrizing power

      L’Indiade ou l’inde de leurs rêves: the Cixousian partnership, aesthetics of the hyper-real, and border crossers

      Drums on the Dam: In the Form of an Ancient Puppet Play, Performed by Actors: theatrical self-questioning and the actor as puppet

      Conclusion

    7. PRACTICAL EXERCISES

Principles of theatrical creation

Mask work

A basic rehearsal vocabulary

Biography

Judith G. Miller is Professor of French and Francophone Theatre in the Department of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University, New York, and Affiliate Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi.