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Harb, Sabbag Souad. "Esthétique et politique dans le théâtre de Sartre." Lyon 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986LYO31007.
Full textOur study's object has been the role of art and politics in the man's liberation and his relationship with others : to achieve this target, we hawe compared sartre's positions xith nietzsche and hegel's ones art errabiles man as authentic realization of his freedem, but, it meets its limits in the impossibility foor the artist to hawe equal and reciprocol relationships with others out side his work of art kean, a play written by alexandre dumas father, and adapted by sartre, reveals these limits as well as the appropriation of the theatre and of the artists by the midadle -clons. Politics proves to be onather way to man's liberation : it errables him to affirm its freedom by the revolt against situations of oppression. Talking of this, sartre sets up a distinction between the political leader and the other members of the group : theoreticolly, he's condemming the first role but, in effect, which is showed in the plays, he's defending it. Trough the plays we hawe studied, we have tried to understand the relationship between the leader and the members of the group : bariona, les mouches, l'engrenage, et les mains sales show the solidarity of sartre for oppressed people. But every one facesits own situation : the oppressed one must affirm his freedom by revolting himself and nobady cando it for him; in the opposite, if the gives in he refuses the human being which exists inside himself and he is accomplice of his oppression. . . The leader is the one who expressed this revolt when wanting to modify oppressing social conditions, but he must assume his solitude and play his role. Every one is responsible of his situation: if there is a leader, the reason is that others hawe resigned their active role inside the group. So, sartre is defending the leader in so for as he affirms his freedam, and his- critis concern more people who stay passive and sulmissive
Huertas, Juana. "Relations entre musique et scène dans une esthétique du théâtre lyrique : le théâtre mental." Paris 8, 2013. http://octaviana.fr/document/182435849#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
Full textSince always and more today, the relations between the music and the scene with the opera house raise difficulties with the representation of work insofar as the crucial issue is not other than the direction. In order to hear us on the value of the esthetics of the mental theatre as solution with the problems of interpretation, we will work out a definition of the opera house by strongly supporting us on there flection of Adorno exposed in Relations between music and painting, but also on that of Ricœur, Deleuze, Ehrenzweig and others. The second part is devoted to the general esthetics of the achievements of Wieland Wagner, Heiner Müller and Danièle Huillet and followed Jean-Marie Straub by the analysis of the relations between the musico-dramatic text and the production of our three objects of study in distinct examples. Resulting from different fields, we will see how and why their scenic achievements join our definition of the opera house presented initially, then we will show in what these three esthetics share the same fate: the mental theatre
Hourmant-Le, Bever Nathalie. "Le théâtre de Steven Berkoff : une esthétique de la rupture." Rennes 2, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000REN20043.
Full textThe @theatre of Steven Berkoff is based on a central notion that of rupture, this distinctive feature is certainly one of the most remarkable staples of his theatre. Moreover the playwright was once quoted as saying " art should not ever begin to express some balanced thing, art is schizophrenic ". This statement legitimates and justifies this attempt at defining his theatre according to this principle. The similarities between schizophrenia and Berkoff's theatrical world are striking and numerous. Thanks to several immutable theatrical and linguistic rules Steven Berkoff has elaborated an aesthetics of rupture. His theatre is a portrait of the world of the schizophrenic along with a provocative commentary on modernist and postmodernist culture. A threefold approach has been chosen in this work. First we will study the different influences which have shaped Berkoff's theatre. Then we shall focus attention on the notion of world catastrophe which is of primary importance in his plays. A second part will deal with language and its main features. In the last part we will first survey the way in which Steven Berkoff treats sexuality and violence and then concentrate on Steven Berkoff himself and his ambivalent relationships with the journalists
Bertin, Marjorie. "Le pirandellisme dans le théâtre de Jean Genet. Poétique et esthétique." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030156/document.
Full textThis thesis highlights and analyzes the Pirandellian themes in Jean Genet's plays. It proposes a redefinition of Pirandellism, which was the subject of much controversy from the time of its first definition, of philosophical inspiration, by the Italian critic Adriano Tilgher, in 1923. The new definition put forward here is based on five main characteristics: dualism between life and form; Pirandellian humourism; the supremacy of the art work over life; the impossibility of being a unified self; and metatheatricality. This new dramaturgical modelling of Pirandellism serves to analyze Pirandello's metatheatrical plays and all of Genet's theatre, with a view to understanding the historicity of the texts, that is, their anchorage – and sometimes absence thereof – in relation to their contexts of production and the relationships they weave between them. One of the theoretical frames of reference taken to analyze the influence of Pirandello's dramatic art and aesthetics on Genet's theatre is historical and precisely relevant to the history of theatre and scenic forms in 20th century Italy and France. This work is closely linked to the question of the author and of influence. Apart from Pirandellism, the deconstruction of realism, the giving up of psychological or gestural imitation and of the effects of illusion, the spatial framing of a new fictional world, and the abundance of varied texts and forms of stage direction that outline and recommend staging with meticulous precision are all characteristics common to these two authors
Oguet, François. "Exigence artistique et intrication des valeurs dans les festivals de théâtre amateur." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017REN20007/document.
Full textThis thesis deals with the question of the artistic demand in amateur theatre practices. It mainly relies on the observation of national or departmental festivals, based on the assumption that these events allow for the debating about aesthetical choices. The research is driven by on the interrogation: when one practises an artistic activity as a non-professional, how to articulate the objectives of improving the quality of the shows with the concern for maintaining a mutual respect? The study analyses performances and group discussions scheduled during the festivals, completed by interviews with some members of companies, or of the organising committees, or of the juries, some of them being professional artists. The results are taken up, in turn, beginning with the conditions under which the amateurs satisfy their passion, including the means they collectively develop and put into action, therefore. Then the ways of assessing one’s taste when having to elaborate the program of a festival are examined. It is then proposed to regard festivals as whole experiences of life and to take into account the values which are at work during these human adventures. All these aspects are put into dialogue together with some theoretical conceptions of art, according to the most significant elements: intentions, expertise, effects. The social dimension of the practices is underlined, as well as the fact that amateurs have rather spend their time on scene, rather that discussing
Leroy, Christine. "Chair et affects en danse-théâtre." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010569.
Full textForestier, Georges. "Le déguisement dans le théâtre français : (1550-1680)." Paris 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA030009.
Full textMarchand, Sophie. "Théâtre et pathétique au dix-huitième siècle : pour une esthétique de l'effet dramatique." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040111.
Full textThe taste for tears and the ethics of sensibility deeply influence the theatrical practice and theory of the Enlightenment. An original dramatic model elaborates itself from the efficiency of pathos considered as a sentimental adhesion. The analysis of theoretical texts allows a description of this homogenous and coherent system's constitutive elements. The disruptions induced in the dramatic thought by the pathetic expectations are considered first : the promotion of the effect to the rank of a decisive criterion of value, the change from a pœtics of beauty to an aesthetics of pleasure, the effects of the lacrymomania on the genres. Then, the examination of dramatic texts sheds light on the emergence of a rhetoric and a dramaturgy spécifique to the pathos. Finally, the beholder's viewpoint is analysed and the pathetic experience considered, in order to understand how the drama gets integrated into the philosophical system of the Enlightenmnent
Lemercier-Goddard, Sophie. "Les plaisirs de la peur : esthétique gothique et fantastique dans le théâtre de Shakespeare." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030008.
Full textThe links between Shakespeare and the Gothic Novel are twofold. The Shakespearean intertext in the novels of Walpole, Radcliffe and Lewis is used as cultural and literary capital : the protective presence of Shakespeare is part of a process of recognition which helped to legitimate Gothic writing as genre. At the same time, Gothic supernatural is modelled on Shakespeare's ghosts. Hamlet defines Radcliffe's use of terror while Macbeth exemplifies male Gothic based on horror. In turn, the gothic novelists' reading of Shakespeare reveals an aesthetic of the fantastic in his plays. Gothic motifs such as the infinite space, the labyrinth, the veil are all to be found in his plays while the key image of the sleeping maiden embraced by Death finds its source in Juliet, Desdemona and Imogen. Intertextuality in the Gothic novel lifts the veil and shows the uncanny in Shakespeare's theatre
Nilsson, Birgitta. "L’apprentissage par l’expérience esthétique : Utilisez-vous l’audio-visuel, la musique et le théâtre dans l’enseignement du français ?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-84902.
Full textMiljanic, Bojana. "Théâtre pluridisciplinaire de Josef Nadj : histoire, esthétique et institutionnalisation en France." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA072.
Full textWhen we admire an artwork we do not necessarily consider the personal background of the artist and the material means that were required for the production of the artwork. However, every artistic creation is a result of fusion of these two conditions: who the artist is as a person and all the different networks of production and distribution of his work. This thesis is trying to explain, using the example of Josef Nadj’s career, how one’s artistic path can look. What was the historical context of the Josef Nadj’s native country during his life—and even before his birth— and how these circumstances influenced his growing up and later his artistic choices. What do his aesthetics look like and how does he create his pieces. Finally, which circumstances brought him to France and how did he join French cultural networks which later financed and distributed his work. The story of his background and professional career is even more interesting because it sheds light on an artist-immigrant who obtained his professional recognition in his adopted country—France
Thiéblemont, Caroline. "L’Esthétique du cynisme dans le théâtre contemporain." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA148/document.
Full textThe hypothesis of an aesthetics of cynicism in contemporary theatre is based on an empirical observation: while theatre often proclaims itself as political, without claiming any ideology, a lot of contemporary European texts and performances since the end of the eighties express a cynical point of view on the world through the characters that they stage or the situations that they present. Appearing in the midst of a more general movement characterized by the renewed interest of authors towards themes drawn from reality, the cynicism that surfaces in the artworks seems to reflect people’s waning interest in political matters, and the subject’s indifference towards the future of the community.Taking into consideration the dual meaning of the term "cynicism", which refers both to the Greek philosophy movement, of which Diogenes of Sinope has been retained as representative, and to the behaviour of an unscrupulous person who would do anything to achieve their purposes, including breaking free from morality and conventions, this thesis intersects dramaturgical, historical, philosophical, and sociological approaches to explore the different ramifications of cynicism in contemporary theatre, as well as its main features. Sometimes the manifestation of a – possibly unconsciously – conservative spirit, sometimes the signs of an untouched subversive vivacity, the elements constituting the aesthetics of cynicism form a sparse galaxy, insidiously imprinting its mark onto contemporary European theatre
Macé-Barbier, Nathalie. ""Le théâtre et son ombre" : mise(s) en scène d'un art poétique dans le théâtre de Paul Claudel." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040119.
Full textPaul claudel's theater is like a vast laboratory for the discovery and experimentation of peotic principles. The first part of this dissertation studies the numerous dramatic figures of poets ; speeches on art and spectacles that stage various states of creation are dealt with in the second part. The third part, more synthetc, shows that the poem refers to every production, literary, artistic, natural, that implies an inspiration and an expiration (or an expression) ; the dramatic spectacle, with its own features, is specially fitted to demonstrate the function of the poet discovering and recomposing the world in order to offer it to god as a sing of gratitude. Finally, in the fourth part, we provethat ideas of drama, poetry and religion, are intrinsecally connected in claudel's poetic universe and that such a link totally overthrows accepted opinions on literary genres and their distinction
Legendre, Claire. "La vérité comme enjeu théatral dans les esthétiques scéniques du XXème siècle européen : textes de Constantin Stanislavski, Antonin Artaud, Bertold Brecht." Nice, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009NICE2005.
Full text20th Century European drama having become a meaning-oriented practice has gradually favoured the principles of creation and performance over those of a mere representation of a text. This has been a step by step evolution since the ‘Copernician revolution’ of the late 20th century which put the director at the heart of theatrical activity. This change must be understood as an epistemological upheaval culminating in the recent controversial experiments at the 2005 Avignon Festival. Beyond the scandal of this now performative and reality-infused theatre it is possible to make out the combined influences of three major drama reformers, namely: Constantin Stanislavski in Russia and in the USSR, Antonin Artaud in France, and Bertolt Brecht in Germany. They were, each in their way, the inspirers of this new form of scenic expression, henceforth considering creation as a self-reliant and referential process aiming at reaching the truth and using reality as a material as well as an object. Their texts are witnesses to this new emphasis laid on truth, a truth now ringing as an absolute, taking on mystical overtones in Artaud and Stanislavski and a staunch scientific and materialistic direction in Brecht. This call for ‘truth’ is for the three theorists the seal of an ideological demand art can no longer do without. As a living art, the theatre plays a role in the reality it is part of. It has to deal with aesthetics and the epistemology of art but also with reality itself and this, beyond its own walls. ‘Reality’ is not only the object of theatrical discourse but its receptacle and the issue at stake. The confrontation of creation with the world that sees its birth, triggers it and welcomes it, is henceforth part and parcel of artistic action
Pasquier, Pierre. "La Mimesis dans l'esthétique théâtrale française du début de l'âge classique à la fin de la période romantique." Caen, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987CAEN1022.
Full textWiame, Aline. "L'esthétique de la défiguration dans l'écriture théâtrale du vingtième siècle et ses implications philosophiques." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209750.
Full textNotre premier chapitre prend appui sur les textes Matériau-Médée et Hamlet-Machine de Heiner Müller pour analyser les rapports entre mythes et figures ainsi que les critiques de la représentation qu’implique leur mise en scène. Ces questions nous incitent à aborder les processus de démythologisation à l’œuvre dans la pensée critique de la première Ecole de Francfort, et leur reprise par Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe sous le concept de « défiguration ». Nous montrons que cette défiguration est toujours, chez Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, affaire de scène et de théâtre. Nous sommes amenée à élaborer le concept de dé-dramatisation pour saisir la portée d’une telle pensée philosophique et de ses implications artistiques, à la croisée entre l’histoire du théâtre et celle des pratiques conceptuelles.
Dans un deuxième chapitre, nous nous affrontons directement à la conceptualisation de la notion de « scène » à partir des contradictions du « théâtre de parole » créé par Pasolini. Nous approchons la scène à travers le champ de la liturgie et de l’esthétique chrétiennes, et à travers celui de l’image cinématographique (dans une réévaluation du « vieux problème » de la différence entre théâtre et cinéma). Nous définissons la scène comme dispositif de monstration des conditions de possibilité d’un « partage du sensible », selon le concept créé par Jacques Rancière. Nous examinons, notamment à travers les travaux d’Esa Kirkkopelto, comment une telle scène travaille la philosophie entre schème et concept (de Wittgenstein à Althusser et de Nietzsche à Derrida), inventant ainsi une théâtralité de la pratique conceptuelle.
Notre troisième chapitre analyse les phénomènes de dédoublement des rôles chez Pirandello, Genet et Müller pour revisiter les fonctions de la « scène psychique » ainsi que de tout le lexique théâtral qui structure l’approche psychanalytique de l’inconscient. Nous proposons de penser la théâtralité à l’œuvre dans la construction de la personnalité en fonction d’une subjectivité « scéno-cartographique » dont l’impact thérapeutique a été éprouvé, notamment, par la psychiatrie institutionnelle.
Enfin, dans un dernier chapitre, nous nous laissons guider par le théâtre de Samuel Beckett pour définir l’agencement qui se tisse entre théâtre et philosophie, grâce à la défiguration comme opérateur conceptuel. A travers le « faire » dramatique et sa crise, nous interrogeons la manière dont la question de l’action a été posée par l’histoire de la philosophie. Nous examinons les usages que font Deleuze et Souriau du terme de « dramatisation » et de son impact dans le développement des dimensions virtuelles de l’expérience. Nous évaluons ce qu’apporte la pratique de l’acteur aux modes d’attention philosophiques, et nous proposons de comprendre les rapports du théâtre et de la philosophie en fonction du concept d’ « incorporation ». Nous concluons en démontrant que la prise en compte de l’expérience de la scène théâtrale dans et par la philosophie est une condition sine qua non au façonnement d’une théorie croisant études visuelles et conceptualisation de la représentation par l’image et par l’action. Nous déjouons ainsi toute tentation iconoclaste, en travaillant les dimensions de mouvement et de temporalité que la scène permet de saisir.
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Hartweg, Jean. "Esthétique et dramaturgie dans l'oeuvre critique de Francisque Sarcey." Amiens, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008AMIE0006.
Full textHuapaya, Cesar Augusto Amaro. "L'utilisation des matrices rituelles afro-amérindiennes dans le processus créatif du théâtre expérimental capixaba (Vitoria, Espirito santo, Brésil)." Paris 8, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA082120.
Full textThis thesis deals with the process of creation, which characterizes the group of experimental theatre called Capixaba (Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil). This work analyses its body technics and its links with the different kinds of candomblé and with the Brazilian society. The group has been doing research and has been engaging in resistance against the political, economical dictatorship in Brazil for 25 years. The thesis points out the group's evolution from a militant political commitment characterized by a theatrical aesthetic in the European style during the militarian dictatorship to a social, cultural and economical militancy defined by a theatrical aesthetic inspired by Afro-Amerindian candomblé's practices. In Brazil, the various kinds of performative practices (candomblé, congo and carnaval) represent both some experiences of individual life and some political, bodily and performative action in the performer's day life. The individual exhibition (or work) mainly contributes to the making and construction of reality. The axé is the source and the vital strength of any creative process of the group through its theory called Performer laô. The Performer laô's principles are similar to those of candomblé and rituals, insofar as it develops every performer's ability both on aesthetic and inner experience level. Exactly like in the candomblé, in which the performer aims at changing its own reality by developing its personal abilities, the Performer laô changes its reality and present time through body performances. In Brazilian society, the performative and body practices of Capixada experimental theatre's group constitute a re-creation and an imaginary, social, political and individual construction of a generation which aims at creating a form of "active" performing art in "economical", "political" and "exsitential" crisis. To react against the crisis, they interfere in reality, individual daily life and performative space-time (intimacy, private and public life)
Bombard, Françoise. "Les objets dans le théâtre de Jean Giraudoux : une esthétique du décalage et de la dissonance." Lyon 3, 2009. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/out/theses/2009_out_bombard_f.pdf.
Full textPower of words is equalled by that of the objects in Jean Giraudoux’s theatre : this bet require a new approach inspired by the history of arts. From the end of nineteenth century mass production transformed the relationship between man, especially artists, and objects ; mechanization was greeted with enthousiam or reticences. Resituate this work in this context seems the best way in order to trait the objects. The challenge of this thesis consists in establishing that objects lie at the heart of Giraudoux’s theatrical creation. So it become necessary to trace the presence of objects in the text itself. Occurrences, caracterisations, personnification of the objects and reification of the characters, all this reveals a really sense of the concrete and lead us to examine the relationship between subject and object in depth. « Literary theatre » is compatible with the way for plays to get across. Giraudoux’dramatic choices raise between mimetic representation and derealisation : the spatio-temporal functionning of the objects creates new conventions and propose original meanings, but the character exists always. Rich variety of dramatic functions assigned to the objects are responsable for the theatrical efficiency of these theatre. Consequently, an innovating theatre which places objects in the centre of his play-writing. To define the poetics of Giraudoux’s object we should attach importance to intellectual debats which are materialized as well as objects are utilized playfully : seriousness and frivolity are not incompatible with a fertile and imaginative use of objects and a poetic use of detail. Giraudoux’s theatre offers its richness and complexity
Shimada, Kaoru. "Absurdité, théâtralité, fictionnalité: essai sur le texte de théâtre : l'écriture théâtrale d'Albert Camus." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040006.
Full textHow can we read the theatre works of Albert Camus, as he wished them to be read, from a purely aesthetic angle, without reducing them to the demonstration of the thesis expressed in his philosophical essays? In the current context of aesthetics and poetics, this question is inseparable from another question: what is the theatricality of theatre and theatrical text? The case of Camus reveals some specific features of the theatrical text that appear to point towards its fictionality. However, theatricality is not synonymous with fictionality, although these notions are both closely connected with absurdity. Absurdity, which is to be found in the fundamental principle of communication, allows us to recognize both theatricality and fictionality. In the case of Camus's theatre, which exemplifies more than it represents absurdity, the aesthetic experience of the reader-spectator consists above all in grasping the full meaning of the distance that separates the artistic intention and the works that realize it
Reich, Michèle. "Le comique de l'hybridation et l'exhibition du comique dans les formes dramatiques et paradramatiques contemporaines." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030075.
Full textOur purpose is to study the comicality of hybridization and exhibition through the dramatic and paradramatic contemporaneous works. Our analytical investigations does not respect literal chronology. It will not be reduced to a period or some French or French speakers playwrights. First, we will study the comicality in question. Then we will try to focus on the poetics of laughter. The third part will deal with the principal forms of modern comicality. The fourth part defines hybridization in the grotesque comic style and the burlesque modalities of exhibition. The fifth one will focus on how hybridization and exhibition appear through the plays, how the spectator is confronted with the Actor as a Fool who makes him laugh hilariously. So will be drawn the major features of the mutations of the theatral contemporaneous comicality
Masclet, Virginie. "La parole dans le théâtre de Musset." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040132.
Full textIt is a well-known fact that most of Musset's plays were not written to be performed. This refusal of the stage should not be explained as the result of the author's ideological views on literature, but rather as a consequence of a wound to his pride. Young Musset's works had been badly greeted and mocked, and thus the author gave up the audience and intended his drama to be read rather than performed. One must then conclude that to read Musset's plays is to accept the original experience of a drama which exists only through its words, which distances itself from Aristotelian mimesis and catharsis, and which is built through the sole speech of characters. Speech is therefore the core of Musset's drama. It represents its very substance, its meaning, and at the same time its means of expression and its subject for reflection. This work on speech as a means of expression and as an end in itself has some important corollaries. If speech animates this drama to be read and not to be performed, it plays its part as much as a character would. As a character, then, speech has its own story which originally quite resembles its speaker's story. The originality of Musset as a playwright must be seen in contrast to the tradition he went against
El, Hage Samar. "Pour une esthétique de l'argumentation dysfonctionnelle dans le théâtre de Bernard-Marie Koltès. Approches rhétorique et pragmatique." Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030164.
Full textThe rhetorical analysis as well as the linguistic pragmatics of the interactive mode of conversation in the six main pieces of Bernard-Marie Koltes show the functionality of the dialogues defined by the playwright as a dynamic argumentation. Far from being ethical argumentations, these dialogues seem to be filled with fallacies and they embody sophistic exchange of appearances and oratory manipulations. The playwright thwarts discursive norms and puts in place peculiar argumentations that provoke linguistical effects and create koltesian’s stylus. Theses argumentations constitute an aesthetical medium of the author’s world and human concept. The fallacies interpretation allows to grasp Koltes’ work as an artistic product revealing his relation to the world and to the theater. The koltesian diction is a rebellious speech denouncing the illusion as well as the artificiality which governs the complicated apparatus of human relationships and the way of understanding the drama work
Auzolle, Cécile. "Études pour une esthétique de la fête dans le théâtre lyrique depuis "Les noces de Figaro" de Mozart." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040003.
Full textBorn in the heart of princely festivities, the opera wouldn't have existed without a festival context. From the feast of the original operas to the distance created by the theatrical representation, with an obvious break during the revolution, the opera is the mirror relfecting a rejoicing society : in the architecture of the theatres, in the ritual of the representation or even in the feasts taking place in the works. It is thus possible to determine an anthropology based upon the study of lyrical works taken for their descriptive interest of archetypal human behaviour, beyond their qualities of testimony of musical and theatrical fashions. Sublimated archetypes on stage that lead to intertainment or on the opposite bearing an amplified tragical impact to express an utter state of distress, all these features are the elements of a systematic study made to identify an aestetic of the feast in the lyrical theatre
Messaoud, Mouna. "La fonction du regard dans le théâtre hugolien : syncrétisme des langages symboliques." Paris 8, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA083335.
Full textThis research focuses on the gaze’s function and aesthetics in the romantic drama played by Victor Hugo. I have chosen to address this original item in its greatest extension: based initially on the study of visual perception and optical meaning, I am referring to the phenomenological work to form the basis of my research. Then, I develop its implications in the study of the gazes forms and functions in the theater design, in the establishment of a reasoned typology of gazes and their passionate effects in relation with elementary axiologies of the sensitive world (fire, air, water, earth) in analyzing the relationship between the gaze and the device of dramaturgic roles and their interactions, before studying, even more widely, the gaze’s dramaturgic importance in the Hugo’s theatrical aesthetics, the extension of the stage space, the reasons and the purposes, the functions of colors and light, etc. . ) where I highlight the syncretism of the languages in which the gaze takes place. The fact of giving an eminent place to an element so often considered as marginal in the theater studies, shows here, and this is the originality of the thesis, that the gaze imposes itself as a key element, particularly romantic philosophy and aesthetics revealing
Simard, Jean-Pierre. "Ethique et esthétique dans le théâtre de John Mc Grath (1958-1991) : sa contribution à la culture populaire contemporaine en Grande-Bretagne." Metz, 1994. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/UPV-M/Theses/1994/Simard.Jean_Pierre.LMZ943_1.pdf.
Full textThe current thesis examines John Mc Grath's theatrical activities as a playwright, as a director or as a theoretician, between 1958 and 1991. It estimates the etthical dimension of the intervention of the playwright, and the aesthetical implications of his wish to communicate with popular audiences. It inevitably questions the value of such concepts as : political theatre, parallel or fringe theatre, "Ceilidh-plays", interventionist theatre, carnival theatre. It situates John Mc Grath's works within national and international heritages. A contemporary bias will inevitably try and appreciate the validity and developments of two tools, privileged in the study of the activities of the playwright: sociology and semiotics. The questions of modernism and post-modernism, of short-lived and lasting works, of distanciation and identification, of universality and contextualisation inevitably arise out of a study whose key object is the process of creating and communicating, from writing to staging, with audiences who have usually been enstranged from official theatres. Epic, John Mc Grath's specific art of writing and staging has first been rooted in the regional cultures of liverpool and the industrial areas in the north of england, before reflecting the diversity of the popular traditions in scotland. Innovating in designing the aesthetical shapes of a theatrical contribution to the moves of contemporary societies, john mc grath allows us to consider the survival of his works and of those theatrical trends which ground their activity on the key place granted to history
Chalkiadaki-Michalas, Niki. "Le baroquisme dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett." Dijon, 1995. https://nuxeo.u-bourgogne.fr/nuxeo/site/esupversions/52a702a8-4c76-406f-bc4a-9a1a5b4165bc.
Full textThis critical study attempts to uncover the baroque elements in the theatre of Samuel Beckett, which is reknown for its ascetism. As the baroque heroes, the beckettian characters are versatile and fluctate continuously between illusion and reality and attempt to conceal the precariousness of the existence by finding ways to divert themselves and others through verbal games and actions. Furthermore, one can find complementary or antithetical pairing of people, like the famous couples of the sixtheenth and seventeenth century, and the characters's miror image or hallucinations. One can add the following elements : the transgression of the bienseance code, the emergence of paradoxical situations, a rampant cruelty, the coincidentia between life and death, the distorsion of all hierarchies, the parodying of ideologies, especially of the theatre, the eccentricity of costumes stage and make-up, and the artificiality of movement and verbal expression. Finally, the plays reveals a mixture of genres, languages and expressions, the contrapuntal use of light or music with speech, the use of mirroring games, repetitions, mise en abyme and lastly the play within a play
Benech, Bernard. "Le théâtre et la voix des origines : quête et retours d'une parole proférée dans les pratiques de la représentation au XXe siècle." Paris 8, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA080918.
Full textThe study concerns the function of the voice in the different kinds of representations (tragedy, buffonnery, puppets and tale), and particularly upon the pratices bounded to sonority of language. The preoccupation is not far from poetry which, uttered, shows a return to the living forces of verb and speech. The process intends to clarify the evolution of the artistic quest proper to vocal training. So are presented, among other exemples, in regard to some significant traditions, some poetic conceptions (symbolism, expressionism, futurism), the verbal work effected by barrault, claudel and the cartel, and the embodiment of voices, under artaud's impulse, by the originals attempts and creations of grotowski, kantor, brook, wilson and of the living theater. The recent creations also are not avoided. The essential intention of the research, by confronting various experiments, was to call a reflexion on the use of voices in the performances of the xxth century
Bernard, Julie. "Les mots et les choses dans l'œuvre théâtrale d'Alberto Savinio : un théâtre de l'entre-deux." Thesis, Normandie, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021NORMC004.
Full textAlberto Savinio (1891-1952), alias Andrea de Chirico, brother of the famous painter of the metaphysical movement, is a wanderer in the world of art : in turn painter, musician, writer, playwright, set designer, translator but also critic, he experiments everything, abolishes the artistic and linguistic boundaries and makes "play" his creed. This versatile artist turns the theatre into a playful place where all these forms of expression can be found on stage.This thesis considers his theatrical work as a theatre of the in-between that goes beyond the idea of a total theatre to reach infinity. At the heart of this breach and through the prism of language, the playwright questions reality, questions his time and opens up the fields of possibilities.Savinian theatre is indeed the place where everything is expressed: words, the dead and even objects. In this theatre where everything is spoken, the playwright and set designer plays a "perverse" game on words and objects. His conductor's baton becomes a pen or a brush. It turns the language and the matter into visible, plastic, sonorous or speaking objects and reveals to the reader-viewer the mystery and poetry of the world. Alberto Savinio thus exposes the theatricality of speech and fills the gap in the discourse. The limits of speech are therefore annihilated.The word resounds off-stage and on air. In this trompe-l'oeil theatre, there is no room for boredom. The reader-viewer is always on guard, never at rest. His participation is active. So are his intelligence and civic mind. Now, studying the reception of his theatrical work, in France and Italy, will be an opportunity to question these failings on the part of the audience during the author's lifetime. He will know a late but limitless rehabilitation.This thesis is a journey through the theatrical work of Alberto Savinio. The entries and exits must be discovered, to delve into the heart of this in-between, closed or endless space, where the artist's polymorphic activity crystallizes. Through this "coloured adventure", the Savinian spectator explores and questions the other side of the scenes
Wallart, Kerry-Jane. "La poétique du trickster dans le théâtre de Derek Walcott : la référence en jeu." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040127.
Full textThe characters in Derek Walcott's plays prove to be heirs to the slave who had to resort to double entendre so as to trick his master ; their rhetoric can only be understood if one already knows how to decipher it. Meaning is turned upside down at all semiotical levels, the encoding remaining largely concealed. One signifier will designate two signifieds, one representation will refer to two objects. The encoding is endemic. Such a diabolical dramaturgy is orchestrated by the immutable figure of the trickster, a celestial fool ; he is as shape-shifting as his roots are varied, from African tales to European Carnival, from the American hobo and hustler to the Black American tradition of the signifying monkey. The spectators find themselves questioning what exactly the topic is, what every reference stands for, and what the frame of reference could be. The trickster also often appears as the author, thus adding self-reference to proliferate references ; with him, complex rhetorics turn to poetry
Weill-Engerer, Christèle. "La folie : reflet d'une esthétique baroque dans le théâtre de Shakespeare, Calderón et Corneille : étude linguistique, stylistique et littéraire." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040193.
Full textThe purpose of this study was to compare three authors writing in different idioms, all three belonging to the XVIIth century: Shakespeare, Calderon and Corneille. We tried to show that their theatrical works offer the features of a baroque aesthetics, refusing consequently the image of a classical Corneille. We choosed one of the aspects which represents the best the baroque in the theater: madness. The theme of madness leaded us to examine, in a linguistical, stylistical and literary point of view, some characteristics common or divergent between this English, Spanish and French theater. First, we began to point out in these three authors that some characters were having an unbounded desire of power and domination, representing on stage what we called "a Prometheus challenge". From this point, we established that the linguistical and stylistical expression of madness was not necessarily appearing with an hyperbolical language but, paradoxically, with a rational language. We studied then the madness of love, and more particularly jealousy, which symbolizes a DionysiaC baroque, producing, in the tragedy or the comedy, the violence of passion. Finally, we saw that madness could present clinical and pathological signs and symbolize therefore a spiritual, somatical and macrocosmical disorder, described with precision by the three authors. In conclusion, this work shows that the topic of madness perfectly reflects a theatrical baroque with different faces in the works of Shakespeare, Calderon and Corneille
Kerber, Stéphane. "L’anatomie de l’action dans le théâtre de Marivaux." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040060.
Full textThis research targets to bring new lights on the aesthetic of the theatre of Marivaux by focusing on the conceptof action. Also, through the plays of Marivaux, it looks concretely for a new thinking about this polyvalent andcomplex notion. It constitutes an ‘Anatomy of action’. It takes place in the global reflection on this term, whichgoes back to Aristotle and in which philosophers and creators/theoreticians confronted their conceptions on thedefinition, its essence and the new aesthetic inflexions which could be reached then.The analysis is mostly based on three plays, both ‘experiments’ and patterns which reveal in an emblematicway the diversity of this theatre and open on the other dramatic creations of Marivaux. A fairy Italian pattern,Arlequin polished by love (1720) leads to the exploration of the basics : the inconstancy as action, the actionresulting from a highly hybrid mixed genres theatre and the crisis of the protagonist and its consequences onthe centre of action. A tragic fruitful anti-pattern, Annibal (1719) gives a deep structure for three masterpieces,comedies with “tragic basement” (The False Servant, The Travestied Prince, The Triumph of Love) by usingthe traditional tools of the tragedy (knot of glory, sublime, recognition, choice of the protagonist). And autopian pattern, The Island of slaves (1725) creation of thought leads to the concept of action and gives key forunderstanding how Marivaux builds up this action by mixing and balancing it with cheerful and eventfulaspects
Kolb, Matthieu. "Espaces dramatiques et postdramatiques dans le théâtre de célébration de Franck McGuinness." Caen, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012CAEN1648.
Full textWind, Priscilla. "La notion de mise en scène dans les pièces de théâtre d'Elfriede Jelinek." Phd thesis, Université de Rouen, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00488060.
Full textCalva, Hernández Laura. "Théâtre et public au Mexique dans les années 1930 : le cas de "Maya" de Simon Gantillon (1930), "Gaz" de George Kaiser et "Les briseurs de machines" d'Ernst Toller (1933), une esthétique de la réception." Perpignan, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PERP0607.
Full textI have constructed an analytical model of the perception of theatrical productions based on Hans Robert Jauss’s esthetical perception and the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce. This model could be applied to the study of any artistic production. I apply it to three European Avant Garde plays which were presented in Mexico between 1930 and 1933: Maya by Simon Gantillon, The Machine breakers by Ernst Toller and Gas by George Kaiser. In each case I outline the factors which influenced the public’s interpretation and judgement. In fact the perception of a theatre play depends directly on the social, political and aesthetic notions which are valid for the spectator and which thus determine his interpretation of the signs which make up the text
Bonis, Catherine. "Le merveilleux dans le théâtre de Cour de Pedro Calderón de la Barca." Brest, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BRES1007.
Full textThis thesis intends to analyse and to define the marvellous form which is extraordinarily present in the aesthetic developed by Calderón de la Barca in his Court Drama. It is question of study the form and the poetic, aesthetic, cultural and historical principles of this type of marvellous in order to understand its symbolical and political significance. In this theatre extremely metatheatrical, the marvellous lends to the elaboration of a reflection about art which is particularly deep and lends to the creation of innovative theatrical’s forms. The study intends to focus on the modernity of the theatre developed by the author who heads for a type of Total Art rested on marvellous linked on a poetics converted into a rhetoric, a discursive strategy based on emotion, on cognitive’s role of representation of a striking and astonishing image, and based on the delight created by imagination. The marvellous appears as a political, an ethical instrument and as an unequalled mode of communication because, through the fiction and the fable, it can open to the dramatist the possibilities of describing the present by celebrating the power or converted into a vehicle of critical and satirical thought
Le, Goff Virginie. "Le sacrifice racinien : une esthétique théâtrale de la duplicité." Paris 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA030169.
Full textThis thesis presents the analysis of the theme of duplicity in the dramatic works of jean racine. An essential dramatic form in the world of racine, duplicity is a recurrent forme in the dramatic system of racine. Applied to the theatrical langage, inscribed in a situation of double communication, duplicity goes beyond the dramaturgic frame so as to reach its aesthetic value because of the manifold meanings it implied and wich invites the audience to an original way of experiencing reception. Finally, the diplicity in racine's work only become a tragical form because it is linked to the theme of sacrifice. Thus, any tragedy by racine is the representation of a sacrifice. The theme of sacrifice, wich is at stake in any of racine's tragedy, exposes the coherence of the tragical logic in racine. It sets up the double relationship between a tragical duplicity wich sacrifices and a tragical duplicity wich is sacrified. And, tragedy after tragedy, it builds up racine's theatrical aesthetics of duplicity
Caballero, Alma. "La France dans le théâtre de l'Amérique Latine : trois courants d'influence dans des points clefs de la géographie et de la culture de Notre Amérique." Paris 8, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA080930.
Full textThere is an undeniable french prescence in the theater of latin america : it can be appreciated through the writings about indigenous theater, and the tours around the continent made by the most celebrated french masters. This influence is also manifest in some historical motives of the evangelization theater, as well as in the french-writt en plays staged by latin-americans. Through the study of texts, reports and historical testimony, our work intends to seize the traces this exchange left in the formation of the public's taste, the conception of the mise en scene, and in the perspectives of a new creativity
Sellami-Vinas, Anne-Marie. "L'écriture du corps en scène : une poïétique du mouvement." Paris 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA010586.
Full text-The writing of the body on stage is defined as the at by which the dancer or the actor makes shapes, states or characters visible thanks to his movement. - The thesis consists of four parts - The first one etudies the relevance of the notion of writing applied to the work of the body on stage. It considers the different senses of the word writing which is distinguished from the word reading. -Writing is above all the act of tracing. In accordance with the poietic approach which focuse on the dynamic mechanisms of the creation and studies the connection between artist and the materiel, this study ponders over the authors of the writing of the body and over the nature of the materials they use: body, gesture or movement. - The second part is devoted to the study of the movement, resting on the systems of notations and on the research of five great theoricians: Feuillet, Engel, Delsarte, Dalcroze et Laban ; it analyzesthe different definitions given to the theatrical act from the 170 to the 200 century. This study gives prominence to the existence of a science of movement with its object, its methods and its applications. -The third part describes - from data taken up previously - the different constituent elements of the movement and their expressive intrinsic qualities. It shows how the material movement freed from mimetism, becomes involved in abstract art. - the fourth part deals with the influence exerted by the definition of the movement over the status of the body on stage and describes its main periods from 1700 to 1960. - The conclusion of this research is dual and focuses on the writing of the body as an art and as a science : the writing of the body is an art which conditions the practice of all the other theatrical arts or dynamic arts. It is to the writing of the movement what literature is to the writing of words ; similarly, it is a scene of culture and knowledge which calls for being studied
Berger, Cécile. "Le "forestiero" dans le théâtre comique de Carlo Goldoni : l'oeil persan, la lunette d'astronome et le miroir." Paris 8, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA081424.
Full textAfter the profusion of goldoni criticism following the 1993 bicentennial of his death, it was not so easy to find new ways of studying the playwright and his work. But these recent studies had shown how much of a european goldoni was at his time (1707-1793). So our choice of the character of the "foreigner" (forestiero in italian) could underline an interesting aspect of the goldonian theatre: the cryptic link between "us" and "them", the "same" and the "different", "here" and "there". . . First, the foreigner's presence would often show the venetian reality through his "persian" eyes. Second, he allows to emphasize the dialectic aspect of goldoni's dramaturgy through his presenceabsence on the stage and his isolated outlook upon the other characters. And finally, he is the "different" one who is also ambivalently the "same": he stands for goldoni himself, when he is turned into the mirror of a subtle stage autobiography, which parallels the memoires written in paris after 1784. Numerous aspects of the foreigner come from goldoni's own literary knowledge. The figure of the wandering actor is a follow-up from scarron's roman comique, the "persian" eyes that look out on venice strongly resemble montesquieu's in the lettres persanes. Goldoni himself forever foreigner - in venice too - seems to write his own autobiography in the manner of his century's travel novels. The errant pilgrim's analytical vision might come from goldoni's interest in alchemy (his father was a doctor): the foreigner is like the doctor of the diseased venetian stage (corrupted by the commedia dell'arte's obscenity) whose progressive transformation the dramatist is to oversee over a series of scenic experiments from 1750 to 1753. And finally, the foreigner is an avatar of the 18 th century new journalists: he is a precursor of the caffe of milan (1764-66) and their outside and ironical vision of italian reality
Vinuesa, Muñoz Cristina. "Manifestations circulaires dans l'oeuvre théâtrale de Jean-Luc LAGARCE." Paris 7, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA070038.
Full textIt has often been said that Jean-Luc Lagarce's plays were based on brooding over, expressing an « ill at speech », with recurring themes around homecoming, family and death, and a philosophy of conciliation. Echoes of such themes can actually be found in his drama and its characters, within or between the Unes. But if attempts to appease express a need to reconcile, they are not connected to the past but to an adjusted present with circular reflection. We will thus analyse space and time, fable and characters according to three circular expressions: the wheel, diverging spherical wave and the cylinder, showing that Largace's works progress in circles, as opposed to linear or chronological movements
Pourcel-Padilla, Nathalie. "L' esthétique du sublime dans les peintures d'Henry Füssli (1741-1825) d'après les pièces de William Shakespeare." Montpellier 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004MON30050.
Full textHenry Fuseli (1741-1825), an Anglo-Swiss artist, is one of the main figures of the Shakespearean painting, born in 1728 with William Hogarth. Fuseli uses an aesthetic of the sublime in his treatment of space and in that of the human body. Even if he resorted to theories of the sublime such as Edmund Burke's (it was applied to painting by different painters), John Dennis', or Jonathan Richardson's, the artist expresses an uncommon pictorial form of the sublime compared to that chosen by his contemporaries. The sublime of privation is opposed to the sublime of revelation, founded on the expression of the physiological effects of the emotions of terror or admiration. Science equally plays a role in this emotional expressionism, as Fuseli represents a potentially ideal human body through the pictorial reference to dissection or to entomology. The Shakespearean characters are thus elevated
Johansson, Franz. "Le corps dans le théâtre de Paul Valéry." Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040059.
Full textAmong all the literary genres, theatre deals with the human body in a unique way: not only is the body figured in a play but it also becomes a substance, an instrument, a presence on the stage. A playwright will always, in some way or another, be confronted with the body in the meaning of its biological constitution, its shape and movement, its resources and limitations and, ultimately, its essence. Theatre is therefore one of the most interesting fields for studying Valéry’s approach to the human body : in no other part of his work does the writer embrace the body in such an immediate, complex, profound - and nonetheless problematic and ambiguous -way. Valéry is an immense artist of the body. The first part of this work explores how Valéry contemplates the experience of theatrical embodiment: do his dramatic works and projects need and call on the actor’s active matter ? Or do they, at least, tolerate it ? The second part analyses the different ways in which Valéry’s aesthetic principles incorporate the presence and movement of the body in dramatic writing: how are the expressive means of the actor seized and transformed by artistic conventions, processes or techniques ? The last part aims to specify the conceptions of the body that emerge from Valéry’s plays and drafts: what does this theatre, as a language of the body, tell us about the human body ?
Girardin, Catherine. "La philosophie de l'histoire par le théâtre dans l'oeuvre de Johann Gottfried Herder (1764-1774)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA100043.
Full textThis dissertation studies how Johann Gottfried Herder reflects on the conceptualization, writing and functions of history in the same movement in philosophy of history and theatre. The interdisciplinarity characteristic of his work and the integration of aesthetics and arts in his understanding of history within the framework of German historicism (Historismus) are factors that contribute to making his own dramatic works a space to reflect on the individual and collective experiences of the past, as well as on the objective and subjective position of the writer, both the historian and the playwright. This dissertation strives to look not only at how Herder’s theatre can be characterized as “historical”, that is, how it tells history and how faithful it is to it, but more particularly at how the two types or ethos of writing, historical and dramatic, influence each other in the author’s work between 1764 and 1774, and in four plays – including outlines and fragments – out of which two have been published. The act of representation, common to both dramatic and historical narratives, discussed on one side in philosophy of history and aesthetics, and on the other, put to practice in playwriting, is a touchstone of the main hypothesis of this dissertation, according to which Herder, by writing theatre, writes a philosophy of history
Tristan, Marie-France. "Le "théâtre du monde" dans l'Adone et les Dicerie sacre de Giambattista Marino." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040149.
Full textRoques, Sylvie. "Le corps et ses images dans l'écriture dramatique contemporaine : une application du logiciel "Alceste"." Paris 8, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA082522.
Full textIn my research I employed a lexical analysis by context invented by Max Reinert and called “Alceste” methodology. This method investigates the authors' establishment of lexical universes (mondes lexicaux) in the writing of dramatic scripts. In analyzing these lexical universes, we can trace and evaluate diverse representations of the body and note that two major categories appear: one, is a universe concerned with a corps humide (that which is fluid, organic and sensual); the second describes a corps sec (the mechanical body, the dead body, the body as an abstract idea). In this regard, the preoccupation with the body evident in our contemporary culture is also present in contemporary theater. Contrary to an aesthetic of an ideal body (le beau corps), contemporary theater seeks to represent the body in its reality: in the flesh, raw, with its expressions of blood, sweat, tears, hesitation and the daily ambiguities of embodiment
Li, Min-Yuan. "Apports des traditions scéniques orientales dans les théories esthétiques et les pratiques du théâtre européen au XXe siècle." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO20029/document.
Full textIn the last decade of the 19th century, works of Lugné-Poe and Antoine experiment a new aesthetic representation and search the essence of the theatrical invention in the mise en scène. The director (metteur en scène) becomes the author; toa certain extent, sometimes, s/he takes the predominant role. Throughout the 20th century, the evolution of the directing (mise en scène) accelerates abruptly and it is so violent and sometimes it reaches to a state of anarchy. This is why the aesthetics of oriental scenic tradition, which goes through reproducible art forms, even stereotypical, could provide beacon and safeguards.Paul Claudel is the first person who acquires knowledge about the Orient due to his long stays in Asia. He incorporates the oriental traditions, cultures and philosophies in his playwriting, and proposes new epic and lyric forms in theater, likeone sees in The shoe of satin and Christophe Columbus. Proposing a symbolist theater, he had staged real poems which reflect his cosmology and his poetic vision. Claudel had achieved what Jean-Louis Barrault dreamed of -the "total theater."In the early 20th century, several colonial exhibitions introduced the East to the West. They gave Westerners an opportunity of directly absorbing the oriental scenic tradition. The formalists acting— sacred and aesthetics— in symbolic poetry attractsintellectuals and artists. Particularily, the representations of Sada Yacco and Mei Lan-fang were most enthusiastically received. The theoretical directors were passionate about the expressive and metaphorical acting of their robust,well-proportioned yet flexible bodies, about their moderate and discreet attitude, which were shaped by the ancient Eastern traditions. Although there were slight differences among various Asian theaters, they were grouped under the common name of "Oriental Theatre". In this sense, I would like to analyze the impacts caused by three major events of the western theater history in Europe: the successive visitings of troupe Sada Yacco in 1901, the Colonial Exhibition in 1931, and the arrival of Mei Lan-Fang in 1935. At the same time, we should trace the origins and common characteristics of Asian theaters.When the innovative artists discovered the eastern theater, they were overcame by the authenticity of its theatricality and they mirror the Western theater in opposition to the Eastern theater, in which they denounce the shortcomings of Westerntheatrical convention. The oriental scenic tradition shows them the paradoxical aesthetic: (1) unornamented decoration yet enriching in the metaphorical layout; (2) stylized artificial acting but realistic-details revealing; (3) short performance butrequiring long-term training; (4) creations constrained by tradition but set free by the talent of artist; (5) one theatrical art integrating various arts.Referring to these oriental characteristic forms, Craig seeks to find a "definite form", Meyerhold tends to establish a new convention of theatricality. As for Brecht, he goes further into developing theory, and his writing aims to produce the effect of"alienation." Artaud, on the other hand, wants to "terminate the masterpieces" and allow real stage language to speak for itself.After these pioneers who discovered sources from the Orient, directors who follow these doctrines such as Grotowski, Barba, Brook, and Ariane Mnouchkine turn their spiritual search and introspective towards the Orient, in hopes of generating their own aesthetics which could be realized in practice. Therefore, their creations reflect not merely Eastern traditions nor do they apply only Western conventions, but they are fertilized and born out of their appropriation to the Orient, mingled with these directors’ own personality, their "tribe" and their cultural preferences
Hénin, Emmanuelle. "Ut pictura theatrum : théâtre et peinture de la Renaissance italienne au classicisme français." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040263.
Full textBile, Sembo-Backonly Anicette Irène. "De la réforme esthétique à la réflexion sociopolitique : une lecture des drames de Louis-Sébastien Mercier." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030069.
Full textLouis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) is a craftsman of the drama. Its participation in the aesthetic reflexion was crowned by a vast theatrical production. While resting on the large theoretical texts of the author, this work privileges the dramas, to read the orientations of the dramatic reform which it carried out. It is a question of following the thought of Mercier who speaks about the writer “flagellator of vice”, “cantor of the virtue”, in order to analyze the dramatic and dramaturgic means by which the esthetic reform leads, in its dramas, with a thought on the transformation of the society. Middle-class dramas, heroic dramas or national plays, and historical dramas are analyzed together, to see how all these categories account for the capacity given to the theater, and make it possible to understand the Mercier’s literary, political and social ideal. The first part makes for the installation. It not only sticks to traverse the great ideas of reform supported by Mercier, but also to present the selected repertory. It releases a particular conception of the representation of the conditions, which constitutes finally the matrix of the sociopolitic reflexion that the second and the third parts reveal through paintings, figures of characters, speeches
Hagemann, Simon. "La pensée des medias dans le theatre, des avant-gardes historiques au théâtre contemporain." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030096.
Full textThis thesis studies the place and utilisation of mass media on theatre stages during the 20th and 21st centuries. It aims to determine the importance of the thinking about the media in theatre during the great theatrical changes of the period. The research study, presented from a historical perspective, is organised into three parts: cinema, television, and the Internet and other digital media - the identified dominant media. Changes in media culture and certain artistic reflexions provoked the appearance of new theatrical forms, both with and without the utilisation of new technological innovations. An analysis of the thinking of theatre artists facing media developments allows new insight into theatre, the media and their relationship. This thesis aims to question the functions of theatre in the developing art and media landscape, and reflects on possible consequences for theatre studies in the age of digital media