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Title Collaborative theatre : the Théâtre du Soleil sourcebook / compiled and edited by David Williams ; new translations by Eric Prenowitz and David Williams
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1999

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Description xviii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: A grain of sand in the works: continuity and change at the Theatre du Soleil / David Williams -- 1. Towards a popular theatre: 1789 (1970). 1.1. 1789 at the Cartoucherie / Victoria Nes Kirby. 1.2. The search for a language / Emile Copfermann. 1.3. Equal, but not identical / Irving Wardle. 1.4. What is the difference? Collective creation and 1789 / Emile Copfermann. 1.5. Devising through improvisation: the storming of the Bastille / The Theatre du Soleil. 1.6. Devising a new scenography for each production / Guy-Claude Francois -- 2. The comedy of our time: L'Age d'Or (1975). 2.1. L'Age d'Or in performance / Christopher D. Kirkland. 2.2. 'A serene and violent celebration': a statement of intent / The Theatre du Soleil. 2.3. Towards a new form / Denis Bablet. 2.4. The individual and the collective / The editors of Theatre/Public. 2.5. Devising through improvisation: the construction site / Sophie Lemasson. 2.6. Improvisation and the mask: from Arlequin to Abdallah / Philippe Caubere. 2.7. From mask to character: Salouha / Lucia Bensasson. 2.8. Society can be unmasked with a mask / Erhard Stiefel. 2.9. Transpositions and silhouettes -- 3. An apprenticeship with Shakespeare: Richard II (1981). 3.1. Performance as autopsy / The Theatre du Soleil. 3.2. Shakespeare's samurai / Colette Godard. 3.3. Shakespeare is not our contemporary. 3.4. Of loss and liberation / Alfred Simon. 3.5. Shakespeare is a masked text / Jean-Michel Deprats. 3.6. The entire body is a mask / Odette Aslan. 3.7. Reinventing a true music for theatre / The Editors of Fruits. 3.8. One must try not to lie / The editors of Fruits -- 4. A modern passion play: L'Indiade (1987). 4.1. Medusa and the Mother/Bear: the performance text of L'Indiade / Judith G. Miller. 4.2. A long passion / Helene Cixous. 4.3. As if there were a limit to history! / Gilles Costaz. 4.4. Between poetics and ethics: an epic approach to reality / Catherine Anne Franke and Roger Chazal. 4.5. You must know who we are, and what we believe / The Theatre du Soleil. 4.6. A lesson in theatre: A Mnouchkine workshop at the Soleil / Josette Feral. 4.7. Building up the muscle of the imagination / Josette Feral -- 5. Myth and the contemporary: Les Atrides (1990-1992). 5.1. Ecriture corporelle and the body politic: Les Atrides / Sarah Bryant-Bertail. 5.2. The space of tragedy / Alfred Simon. 5.3. The communion of suffering / Helene Cixous. 5.4. The art of the symptom / Odette Aslan. 5.5. Leaving room for the others / Beatrice Picon-Vallin -- App. The Theatre du Soleil: a chronology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-247) and index
Subject Mnouchkine, Ariane, 1939-
Mnouchkine, Ariane, 1939- -- Interviews.
Mnouchkine, Ariane, 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Théâtre du Soleil
Théâtre du Soleil -- History -- Sources.
Théâtre du Soleil.
Theater -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Theater -- Production and direction -- France.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Author Williams, David, 1957 June 4-
LC no. 00266343
ISBN 0415086051 (hbk.)
041508606X (paperback)
Other Titles Théâtre du Soleil sourcebook