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What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. Theatre is, above all, spectacle. It is a fleeting performance, delivered by actors and intended for spectators. It is a work of the body, an exercise of voice and gesture addressed to an audience, most often in a specific location and with a unique setting. This entertainment event rests on the delivery of a thing promised and expected - a particular and unique performance witnessed by spectators who have come to the site of the performance for this very reason. To witness theatre is to take into account the performance, but it is also to take into account the printed text as readable object and a written proposition.
In this book, Christian Biet and Christophe Triau focus on the practical, theoretical and historical positions that the spectator and the reader have had in relation to the locations that they frequent and the texts that they handle. They adopt two approaches: analysing the spectacle in its theatrical and historical context in an attempt to seek out the principles and paradigms of approaching the theatre experience on one hand, and analysing the dramaturgy of a production in order to establish lines of interpretation and how to read, represent and stage a text, on the other. This approach allows us to better understand the ties that link those who participate in the theatre to the practitioners who create theatrical entertainment.
Contents
Part 1: Introduction 1. Points of View Part 2: On going to the theatre 2. Places and spaces: definitions 3. The theatrical space : a concreate space 4. The architectural space Part 3: Evolution of locations and spaces. 5. Some kinds of locations and spaces 6. Social space and the matter of perspective 7. On the location and space of the stage Part 4: What to do in the theatre?: the functioning of the theatrical space? 8. Description and lexicon of the traditional theatrical space 9. Other stages, other devices 10. The coordinates of the staging location 11. The technical elements and materials of the staging location 12. On the danger of analysing everything Part 5: Time, rhythm and tempo Part 6: The body, acting and illusion Part 7: The dramatic text Part 8: Staging: heritage, questions 13. The age of all powers14. The experience of relativity 15. Theatricality up close: an illusion-free theatre? Conclusion Postface: The economic and political positioning of the theatre, by Emmanuel Wallon. Bibliography Acknowledgements Table of Contents ? ? ? ? ?
