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Ambassa, Marie-Thérèse. "Langage-société-imaginaire : le théâtre populaire francophone au Cameroun (1970-2003) : thèse." Nice, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005NICE2010.
Full textThe French-speaking popular theatre in Cameroon is a new form of oral literature born from the encounter of French and Cameroonian languages. It is the product of the imagination of pioneer authors such as D. Ndo (Otsama), D. Afana Ebogo (J. M. Kankan), D. Kemseu (Dave K. Moktoï) and Essindi Mindja. The imagination of authors associated with the collective imagination constitute the language of this theatre that reflects the Cameroonian society. This research reveals the specificity of the French language currently used in Cameroon. Our work is divided into three parts : the transcription of plays, their analysis or interpretation, and the results of the encounter (the re-actualized French language and reception). The contributions of anthropology, sociology, mythocriticism of G. Durand, theories of the theatre of A. Ubersfeld, J. J. Roubine and works of A. Martinet, among others contribute to the clarity of the analyses
Faure, Nicolas. "De "jeune public" à "tout public" : analyse du répertoire théâtral francophone pour la jeunesse." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030065.
Full textThe increase in the number of plays for young people means that a new repertoire is growing. But this repertoire builds its identity when intended for people of any age, paradoxically. Today, the child is considered as able to think by himself. So the author has to give up being a teacher, and he speaks to the child as an equal. The artist is still an adult, who tries to describe for the child a confused world with easy but not simplistic words in all sincerity. Then everyone, old and young, becomes concerned. Besides, young people makes a fresh and incandescent audience that encourages the playwright to use all the means of the theatre in a firework display : words, imagination, fun
Dan-Inna, Chaïbou. "Théâtre, histoire et politique en Afrique francophone de 1960 à nos jours." Bordeaux 3, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985BOR30025.
Full textTOURE, JEAN MARIE. "Theatre et liberte en afrique noire francophone de 1930 a 1985." Cergy-Pontoise, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997CERG0025.
Full textEl, Fakhri-Frem Sonia. "Le théâtre au Liban d'expression arabe et française de 1848 à 1975." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040249.
Full textIs there a Lebanese theater ? Our work aims at addressing this question. The play entitled Al Bakhil (L' "Avare" de Molière), that was adapted by Maroun Naccache in 1848, represents a starting point and a reference in the history of the Arabic theatre. We study the theatre in the period between 1848 and 1975, as well as the other forms of performing arts present before 1848, and consider the periods of development, regression and the underlying causes. The work includes a general overview of the Lebanese theatre in Lebanon, Egypt and France as well as an analysis of the different movements and the characteristics of each evolution period. We have stressed the problems and difficulties of the theatre in relation with the socio-political and economic context. This work consists in five sections that address 1- the aspects of the different forms of performing arts before Naccache; 2- the birth of theatre in Lebanon with Naccache and the difficulties encountered as well as the contributions of his successors in the development of theatre in Lebanon and Egypt; 3- the period of instability due to World War I and II, local wars and economic crises; 4- the renewed rise and growth of Lebanese theatre between 1960 and 1975; 5- the French-speaking (francophone) Lebanese theatre. The theatrical works of different play-writers and directors have been analyzed and categorized. In a effort to preserve a record of the theatrical works of this period, a unified record listing the main play-writers, directors and actors, as well as theatre companies, theatres and play titles was created. Although the main aim of our work was to analyze the different factors affecting the evolution of the theatrical genre, it was necessary to undertake a general historical overview to better understand the interaction between these factors in their socio-political and economic context
Gbouablé, Edwige. "Des écritures de la violence dans les dramaturgies contemporaines d’Afrique noire francophone (1930-2005)." Rennes 2, 2007. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00199210/fr/.
Full textViolence comes across black african French-speaking theatrical production since its origins. It is prone to thematic and aesthetic changes which makes it evolve from one period to another. We have thus passed from confined theatres of assimilated violence where the form was a constraint to an outburst of writings dealing with violence in contemporary works. Violence appears in the plays of William Ponty (1930) under the form of cultural conflict drawn from African customs. Turned into political violence, it embarks the dramaturgic categories during the Seventies in the confrontation of the colonizer against the colonised. With the theatre of the 1980’s, violence, still political, takes however another form marked by an attempt to disrupt with classical theatrical canons. Associating the burlesque with tragedy, bypassing the French language, establishing a dialogue between tradition and modernity through an endogenous writing are as many realities characterizing the expression of conflicts about disillusionnement. In most of the plays following the1990’s, on the other hand, the conflicts take on a plural image which convenes the world through distinctive modes of expression. It results in a hybrid writing in which violence is voiced out through the dislocation of the dramatic categories and of the meaning that emerges out of it. From this scriptural dynamics of violence arises a displacement of the theatrical stakes in so far as African dramas today get rid of the nationalist inclinations to endorse the world’s realities. Thus the opening of contemporary theatres to the world creates a variety of forms whose complexity calls into question the concept of Africanity
Sze-Lorrain, Fiona. "Sur le toit du monde : l’esthétique théâtrale de Gao Xingjian." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040176.
Full textPlaywright, theater director, novelist, essayist and painter — the multi/inter-disciplinary artist, Gao Xingjian first defied the theatrical conventions dominating China for more than fifty years with his absurdist play Bus Stop in 1983. Since then, he has established himself as one of China’s pioneering avant-garde playwrights and writers. Persecuted during the “Oppose Spiritual Pollution” campaign, he was banned from publication. After moving to France in 1987, he began writing plays in French, his adopted language. Relying on few characters, they probe drama between farce and tragedy, expressing a frequently disenchanted vision of life in seemingly random, yet measured, language with minimal decor. Experimenting with the scenic and the corporal, Gao excels in an organic theatre created solely for performance. Using the form and experience of a performance, this thesis explores how Gao revisits linguistic and visual boundaries in an effort to define “drama.” Analyzing his plays, as well as his other writings and paintings, we identify in his work a theatrical performance — visible and invisible, liminal or aesthetical — via three possibilities: actor/spectator, text, and stage. Considering exile and bilingualism in literature, we examine notions of theatrical space and drama that emerge from this study in four main approaches: dramatization, modes of narration, language as rupture in text, and character “enfleshed” by its actor
Verdet, Bruno. "La crise symbolique du theatre : elements d'une critique sociale, politique et economique de la crise symbolique du theatre en france, a la fin des annees quatre-vingt." Reims, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992REIMD001.
Full textIn spite of the efforts accomplished by the authorities in favour of theatre and its democratisation, theatre is becoming, in france, for more than twenty years, always more impopular. For many observants, at this social decline of theatre, we must join a symbolic crisis, real identity crisis of the dramatic art. The most significant sign of it is the present lack of dramatic authors. The author of this thesis examines first the external reasons of this crisis (specially the new medias), then the connection between the theatre'social decline and the development of the contemporary dramatic art and finally the role played by the authorities, via ideology, economy and politics in the theatre'symbolic crisis, in spite of their initial purposes
Lamko, Koulsy. "Emergence difficile d'un théâtre de la participation en Afrique Noire francophone." Limoges, 2003. http://aurore.unilim.fr/theses/nxfile/default/1c171692-0aa1-423b-b881-d0f3a5068eec/blobholder:0/2003LIMO2002.pdf.
Full textPoulain-Beaufils, Eliane. "Corps furieux, corps souffrants : violence et cruauté dans le théâtre contemporain de langue allemande." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040120.
Full textWe thought of undertaking this work after noticing the increasing appearance of violence on the germanspeeking stage in the 1990s. One can doubt whether it is a simple epiphenomenon that bears witness to the ideological impasse and the need to compete with audiovisual arts. It may reflect a more profound mutation of our vision from the human, that integrates a cruelty considered until then as a taboo. A spontaneous application of the artaudian theories may take place: Antonin Artaud promoted in the 1930s a theatre of cruelty which also brought into question the old antagonism between culture and violence. We therefore study playwrights that seem to rest on the traditionnal antagonist point of view, condemning the violence they produce: this occurs in works of secondary authors as easily as in those of renowned authors like Dea Loher or Elfriede Jelinek. We then present the playwrignts that avoid every unilateral judgment by various authors, so as Dirk Dobbrow, Albert Ostermaier and above all Werner Schwab. Even if aesthetic concerns seem more important in these last works, the performance of violence is always accompanied by a questionning about its modes and about the nature of theatre. So these works reveal the tensions going through the actual cultural world, on an intellectual plane as well as on an aesthetic one
Gourg-Combres, Claude. "Le théâtre anglais de 1946 à 1956 : les racines de la colère." Paris 4, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040160.
Full textThe chronic discontent that pervaded the theatre world between 1946 and 1956 has led us to investigate the origins of the ever-widening gap between the theatre and society. Post-war socio-political transformations accounted for a severe economic crisis, reflected in an identity crisis that was crystallized and exorcised by the 1951 festival of Britain. The theatre itself, suffered from a two-pronged crisis: an obsolete system of financing, and what was felt to be a dearth of new playwrights. A survey of the plays actually staged has enabled us to pinpoint the comparative share of English creation. Twenty-two authors have been introduced. Using an analytical approach, we have attempted to capture the "tone" of post-war drama, as well as to spot criteria of modernism, that is, of relevance to the mood of the time. We have used the concept of role, together with Eric Berne's transactional analysis. A history of state intervention and of the creation of promising structures has been outlined. Finally, a textual analysis of look back in anger, as well as a comparative study of Now Barabbas. . . (W. Douglas-Home) and of The quare fellow (B. Behan), bring out emerging distinctive features
Ruset, Séverine. "Au-delà du naturalisme : les métamorphoses de l'espace et du temps dans les dramaturgies anglaises contemporaines." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030128.
Full textThe naturalistic tradition is deeply rooted in English contemporary theatre, where numerous writers – anxious not to impede the clarity and the relevance of the critical examination to which they subject the problems of their time – attempt to reproduce scrupulously the reality they observe. Others choose on the other hand to distort and remould it. They create strange, heterogeneous and mobile space-times ; not to offer the audience an escape, but rather to energise the relationship between the fictional world and the real world. Our thesis investigates the forms and stakes involved in the metamorphosis of space and time in English contemporary drama. Through a corpus of seventeen plays written after 1968, we examine how the renewal of space and time structures undertaken by some writers influences the representation of reality and the spectatorial experience. Hence the treatment of time appears as a determining factor. Contrary to the naturalistic chronotope, which gives priority to space, the free forms which come under our scrutiny have made time the variable of the theatrical equation
Autant-Mathieu, Marie-Christine. "Le Théâtre soviétique au "Dégel" (1952-1964)." Paris 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA030069.
Full textThe "thaw" starts in soviet theatre in 1952 with a renaissance of comedies and satires. With the openings on west and a restoration, though limited, of realisations accomplished in the twenties, comes a rehabilitation of some playwriters and directors. The reconstitution of cultural heritage is accompanied with a revision of values (criticism against the stanislavski's system). As opposed to the defenders of theatricality the founders of the theatre "sovremennik" prove the vitality of psychological realism. The need of a moral purification the whole society longs for, after the stalin period, shows itself through an axaltation of humanism. Playwriters won't play their role of omniscient leaders anymore. Some of them protest against lies in educational and social system. Directors choose plays without positive heroes but where ordinary people live their everyday life. From 1952 to 1964 a new generation of playwriters, directors, actors appears, socialist realism, through theatricality, admits a disjonction between reality and its image. A policy of persuasive rallying takes place of forceful enrolling between political authorities and artists. The "thaw" is a very useful period of rederence for those willing to implement the perestroika at the end of the eighties
Kaboré, Marie-Bernadette. "Le théâtre en Côte d'Ivoire de 1970 à 1989 : structures, répertoires, perspectives." Bordeaux 3, 1995. https://extranet.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/memoires/diffusion.php?nnt=1995BOR30030.
Full textCradle of french-speaking african theatre, the cote d'ivoire as other french-speaking countries inherited from the old colonial power of france some value systems which completely changed the way of life of its population. Amongst the legacy appears modern theatre, a form of expression whose conventions differ from those of traditional shows. Tickets have to be paid for it is performed in french from a written text and made to be seen on an italian-type stage; such are some of its features. First conceived as an entertainment, it really materialized in "goree" (senegal) at the great william ponty school betwe en 1933 and 1940. Then it went beyond the bounds of the ivoiry coast school to conquer the urban audience. In the ivoiry coast, its stage expression is openly questioned by non conformist movements such as "griotique", "koteba" , "theatre rituel", "diddiga", respectively created in 1972, 1974,1979, and 1981. They consider it as too limited and unable to convey the essence of negro-african sensibility. Innovative dramatists have instead suggested a stage expression based on a global language. The latter includes the way of acting, sets, costumes, songs, music and stage occupation. On the whole, they managed to bring an esthetic concern in to african stage. They also contributed to encourage theatrical activities thanks to amateur companies. They still have to convince the public and pass on their enthusiam. Efforts still have to be made in order to define ways to update it and fine codes for traditional shows
Ogavu, Titus. "La mise en scène du choc culturel dans le théâtre d'Afrique francophone subsaharienne." Limoges, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008LIMO2005.
Full textHeulot-Petit, Françoise. "L'altérité absente ? : éléments pour une dramaturgie de la pièce monologuée contemporaine." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030003.
Full textThe drama constructs itself from an interactive conflict in a dialogue form which marginalizes the monologue, a strangely solitary speech. In the traditional dramaturgy, the monologue indicates a pause in the dialogue being in charge of epic functions (it prepares, comments or summarizes the action) and of lyric functions. And yet, in the contemporary dramaturgy, the completely "monologuized play" is in the forefront. If this increase in the number of monologues can be explained by economic, practical or personal reasons, it can find its reason to exist in the necessity of reviving a form which questions the so particular relationship which unites the actor to the spectator. Furthermore, the monologue concentrates the stakes of a put into dialogue play by maintaining a dialogism. Thus, our study, which looks for the presence of the other in the solitude of the "monologuer" is structured around two main lines. On the one hand, the other is present through a "system of complex address" which slips from the address to a concrete element, towards the abstract address and which plays with the frontier which separates the "monologuer" from the public. On the other hand, the presence of the other is reactivated in the narration which stages him through the system of reported speech. Consequently, the monologue can be defined as a mental theatre which inhabits the absence of the immediate person with multiple fantasized presences of the other. This movement, despite the heterogeneousness of the studied plays, draws a picture of the end of century monologue which stages less a deconstructed character than a voice which attempts to reconstruct an identity it has not got through an always uncertain narration. This difficulty has made the character of "the contemporary monologuized play" a "spectral figure", divided between the immediacy of his speech and a past which is always back, without ever being found again
Chénetier, Marion. "L'oralité dans le théâtre contemporain : Herbert Achternbusch, Pierre Guyotat, Valère Novarina, Jon Fosse, Daniel Danis, Sarah Kane." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030030.
Full textAs soon as characters have moved away from the stage, when fiction no longer sustains dramatic action, what remains of the theatre ? Orality : an utterance that displaces drama to nest it at the heart of language and transforms readers into actors of the text. Studying the written manifestations of orality through the works of six contemporaries -H. Achternbusch, P. Guyotat, V. Novarina, J. Fosse, D. Danis and S. Kane- amounts to showing how a specific enunciative mode gets encoded in the writing and is transmitted to the reader in order to make of the theatre the locus wherein physical speech can be rediscovered. Defined as what remains of the body in language when voice has deserted it, orality enhances the dimensions of sound and rhythm in writing. It thus entrusts the materiality of language with a decisive role in the constitution of meaning. Unsettling linguistic codes, orality works on the edges of language, uses it to sound the unknown ; it is the means whereby the theatre may become the site where experience again becomes possible. At the crossroads of stylistics, linguistics, poetics and esthetics, orality is an invitation to rethink the founding categories of the theatre. It also modifies the terms of the old debate in which text and staging vied for preeminence : orality is not the condition for the oral rendering of texts, even if it occasionnally programs it. As a transversal notion, orality questions the very theatricality of speech in various literary genres
Fiangor, Rogo Koffi M. "L'écriture dramaturgique en Afrique francophone : renouvellement et apports interculturels." Paris 10, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA100138.
Full textBlattès, Susan. "Lecture sémiotique du texte dramatique : le théâtre d'Arnold Wesker de 1956 à 1970." Metz, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988METZ003L.
Full textHow may we best define the specificity of the dramatic mode of fiction, compared with other types of literary discourse? This specificity needs to be brought out without either neglecting the similarities between the dramatic mode and non-dramatic modes of fiction or ignoring the variety of different types of drama. The question of the specificity of the dramatic text is analyzed from a study of Arnold Wesker's trilogy. This study is centred around four areas: space, time, characters and discourse. The conclusions drawn are then confronted with a study of other plays written later to see whether it is possible to speak of an evolution in Wesker's dramatic style. Next, in the light of the diversity of dramatic texts and the variety of links between the dramatic world and the real world, emphasis is put on the way a semiotic reading of the dramatic text can provide a more precise picture of the notion of realism in the theatre as a prior step to considering the relationship between text and performance
Veillas, Karine. "Théâtre francophone contemporain pour la jeunesse : jeux et enjeux (personnages, écriture et réception)." Paris 12, 2007. https://athena.u-pec.fr/primo-explore/search?query=any,exact,990003939040204611&vid=upec.
Full textThe current craze for French-speaking theatre for young people leads to considering forty plays through the notion of « jeu* », complex and polysemic term which has interestingly both a creative and destructive influence on this genre. The playing and acting of the characters sometimes clarify the tensions within the plays and facilitate the reception. But the understanding of the plays is challenged by very subtle forms of playing, ranging from dreaming to non-game. So the young audience needs to be involved to really understand the plays. Identification and catharsis are not enough. The games of re-writing also contribute to challenge the reception for a youngest audience because they are based on subversion and multiple layers of significations. But scenography and acting are ways to still release the pleasure of the show. Games about genres enable the young audience to keep contact with the plays because of the contributions of narrative literature, visual arts and poetry. Even if these influences endanger the acting of the plays, the renewal of the dramatic genre is also the way to find a new young audience. (*The word is in French game, playing or acting)
Wang, Jing. "Le théâtre français en Chine contemporaine (1978-2014)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA125.
Full textContemporary Chinese theater has a close connection with Western theater. For one century, Chinese theater, and especially spoken theater, has analyzed and appropriated Western cultures by filtering and summing up characteristics according to its own interests and presuppositions.This appropriation is accompanied by a series of theatrical operations.In this perspective, we have presented in detail, analyzing specific and varied cases, the reception of French theater in China of the last forty years in two stages: from 1978 to 1992 and from 1993 to 2014. We have emphasized the historical characteristics of each period, which clearly influence the general environment of Chinese theater and its relation to Western theater, by highlighting the influence and the major role played by French theater in the landscape of modern Chinese culture and especially his theatrical creations. The rich exchanges with Frenchtheater allow the Chinese theater to dialogue, to question, to evolve and to rebuild its ownidentity
Rauer, Selim. "Les frontières de l'exil, ou les figures et territoires de l'étranger." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030057.
Full textThis doctoral dissertation, entitled The Borders of Exile: Figures and Territories of Foreignness, reinterprets the notion of the border as an expanding territory of estrangement and seclusion in the aftermath of colonialism and the Shoah, in an era characterized by global market economies. While allegedly situated beyond racial and sexual hegemonic claims, Selim Rauer shows how this globalized economy, in fact, recreates or intensifies a concept of “zone(s)” --as defined by Frantz Fanon in Les damnés de la terre, 1961--that draws centers and margins, and establishes sites of domination structured by a historical and political unconscious. At the core of this unconscious lies the figure of the enemy or the adversary. The latter is an essential biopolitical and theological representation of otherness and foreignness through which a specific border definition can be established as limit rather than hyphen. Thus, in this project, Rauer scrutinizes a multidimensional literary corpus comprised of works by figures such as Jean Genet (1910-1986), Patrick Modiano (1945), Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989), Koffi Kwahulé (1956), Marie NDiaye (1967), Wajdi Mouawad (1968), and Léonora Miano (1973), each of whose works investigate a certain definition and practice of power and sovereignty as part of an ethical and moral reflection on “evil,” or as Rüdiger Safranski defined it, as the moral and ethical burden that accompanies the practice of freedom (Evil, or the Drama of Freedom, 1997)
Roques, 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
Viain, Elisabeth. "Pourquoi le théâtre contemporain ne ferait-il pas rire ? : humour, subversion et crise de la réception dans la création théâtrale contemporaine française, anglaise et allemande." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL067.
Full textMy research was motivated on the one hand by the bad reputation of contemporary theatre among the people who do not or no longer attend it and who think it is violent, boring or hard to understand; on the other hand by the fact that its audience is socio-culturally extremely circumscribed. I try to make a link between those two observations by using the laugh as a revelatory tool. My hypothesis is that the increasing difficulties to perceive laugh in contemporary theatre and the audience’s punctual efforts to reinsert laugh in their theatrical experience are symptoms of a general limitation of the subversive potential in contemporary creation. Most of all, I think that this kind of laugh’s malfunction is a part of a bigger problem affecting the renewal capacity of theatre, in the aesthetic aspects as well as in the socio-cultural audience’s composition. In fact, the relation between the audience or the scene and laugh/or humour seems linked to some essential aspects of the actual theatrical working: the explicit or implicit refusal of entertainment; the systematization of the “shocking effects’ aesthetic”; the audience’s physical or psychological trial; the way taboos are managed. By exploring the way laugh/humour works or malfunctions, from the scene’s and the audience’s perspectives, I want to identify how the different obstacles to theatrical renewal are related and what really contributes to the audience’s disaffection for an art which, along the 20ieth century, has become more and more marginal in people’s day-to-day life
Ngo, Mbai Gweth Ndjicki Paule Mireille. "Discours sur les femmes et discours de femmes : une analyse ethno-sociopragmatique de l’Implicite dans quelques pièces du théâtre camerounais francophone." Rennes 2, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00458238/fr/.
Full textThe theatrical text is an open and incomplete one that displays in it a hollow, an empty space the care of it is in principle ultimately the producer, who turns it into show to the public, responsible of its own right to fill in the gaps. It is around these voids, these cavities, these unspokens of texts that are also the main message that this thesis is based on the quest for implicit, its meanings and its stakes, social and cultural in the theatrical discourses on women and of women in traditional and cultural contexts. Such interlocutive situations from texts offer discursive tensions, revealing the social, the discursive and cultural figures involved. Exchange of words, these texts construe enunciative mechanisms which are complex, and of which a successively discursive and argumentative process enables one to identify the various stakeholders; their concerns which are discursive, and the argumentative strategies they implement to influence each other. The implicit is revealed through speech acts directly and indirectly supported by the assumptions and the underlying linguistic and cultural rights. They emit traditional and well-organized societies where the rule of man is evident to the detriment of women silenced. But beyond the common cliches about the lack of freedom of expression or the submission of traditional african (cameroonian) women, the implicit returns a different image of her, who, far from locking in the predetermined social position of subordination, she revolts and asserts herself as a full separate being, thereby raising questions of cultural identity. Moreover, taking into account the implicit option, one is allowed to conduct another hearing of theatre and, another reading of texts in general. It becomes an indispensable tool in the teaching of reading
Gac-Artigas, Priscilla. "Étude critique du théâtre populaire en Amérique Latine aux années soixante et soixante-dix." Besançon, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994BESA1015.
Full textKalangi, Caroline. "Le Kenya National Drama Festival : identité culturelle dans un corpus dramatique anglophone et francophone." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016CLF20004/document.
Full textThis study analyszes the representation of cultural identity in sixteen drama texts written by Kenyans in English and in French for the Kenya National Drama Festival (KNDF). Considering the colonial history and the postcolonial context of Kenya, the task involved identifying the postcolonial markers within the texts, identifying major themes and traits constituting a Kenyan cultural identity and determining specific cultural identity. Using a comparative approach, the study draws from both postcolonial and theatre theories. The postcolonial concepts touching on identity through language, culture and representation are identified and analyzed in respect to the Kenyan context. For this reason, the study narrows down to the theoretical works of Edward Saïd, Homi K. Bhabha, Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. The study reveals that the Kenyan population is faced with a multiplicity of cultural choices brought about by the colonization experience, the new practices associated with globalization, as well as the complexities and challenges of daily life. The KNDF proves to be an avenue for sensitizing the public on new phenomena, for denouncing societal ills and for promoting African traditional norms. It is apparent that the use of European languages does not hinder the representation of cultural reality of the local society. Kenya therefore attests to cultural mobility seen in the progression from the traditional system towards a more globalized disposition
Matsanga, Mackossot Ginette Flore. "De l'inscription de la palabre traditionnelle dans le théâtre francophone d'Afrique Centrale : (les Punu du Gabon)." Paris 13, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA131029.
Full textTraditional palaver for the Punu people is a social phenomenon, a meeting, a gathering intended to settle down problems which may bring about disorder in society. It is based on an exchange of words. As a codified speech, palaver can only be apprehended within a particular environment. The manifestation of this phenomenon discloses some elements of drama such as dialog, gesture, silence and dancing. We have studied traditional palaver as a social drama basing our work on two transcribed and translated texts. In that framework, the palaver's analysis has led us to realize how speech changes into action and meaning thanks to its countless aspects. We have then come to the conclusion that oral tradition inspires francophone African drama a lot, notably Gabonese one. To that end, "La Mort de Guykafi", a play by Vincent de Paul Nyonda has helped us justify that assertion
Chu, Hung-Chou. "Une étude psychopolitique du théâtre d'Arthur Adamov ou la peur de l'homme moderne." Paris 8, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA082456.
Full textThis thesis aims to present a psycho-political approach for a substantial understanding of Arthur Adamov’s theater called avant-garde. Precisely, this analyze intends not only to call attention to it’s psychological and political aspects, but also to their relationships. It is one way to reveal how the author of Ping-Pong displays the interaction between two kinds of force in man. One comes from the outside world, another the inner (or the unconscious) world. In fact, Adamov tries to examine the political impact upon the personal psychology. In order to have a total comprehension about the psychological problem (neurosis, perversion, psychosis) of Adamov’s characters, we try to grasp it by studying separately their relationships with the language, the time and the space. By revealing the inconsistency of Adamov’s heroes, we concentrate our attention on and diagnose the pathological nature of their sufferings constructed specially by anguish
Spach, Gaïané. "Deux transitions du théâtre russe : la période révolutionnaire, 1917-1921, et la perestroïka, 1985-1991." Paris, EHESS, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005EHES0020.
Full textInsight into the correlation between Russian theatre and society during two turmoil periods in history. Approach based on both the institutional framework of the theatre and the inner workings of the stage. Two tendencies are rooted in mass ideology : prospect of a better world and fear of social collapse. Detailed analysis of the directors, plays of the time, the reactions and tastes of the audience. Both periods are intertwined : the events that unfold are as mirror images of each other. They were prolific for professionals and amateurs alike. Recurring themes emerge from this periods : at the peak of social unrest, theatre is searching for its identity, between classic and avant-garde, between popular theatre for the masses and for elite. Artists cooperated with power and were not just victims. Its strength of the Russian theatre lies in its ability to adapt to the changing world, and will secure its place in universal culture. Archives on Academic theatres
Gong, Baorong. "Entre "je" et "ils" : l'esthetique et l'histoire du theatre d'arthur adamov." Paris 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA030047.
Full textThe theatre of adamov, which combines the essential characteristics of some principal modern aesthetics, is one of the most important in the contemporary french theatrical history. Considering his continuous evolution, we have divided it into three periods in our study. The first is the period of "subjectivity". As a way of exorcism, this theatre has above all the function to communicate to the public the author's feelings like suffrance, loneliness, separation, etc. Rejecting the sovereignty of "sire le mot", adamov advocate a "living theatre", linked "absolutely, corporally and entirely" with the performance in which the gesture occupies the main place. But the subjectivity is particularly obvious through the increasing importance of the "onirisme", the treatment of the space and the time, and the manipulation of objects. The second, called the "objective", is the result of his contact with the brecht epic theatre. Semi-marxist, adamov has a new conception of the world. Therefore, the theatre he seeks is a "total theatre", capable of giving an account of every aspect of the life. The me, solitary and suffering, is replaced from now on by the historical events and by those who have their social activities within the definite space and time. This objective theatre incite the public to reflection and to criticizing the society, through the process of "desolidarisation". However, neither the first nor the second has given the satisfaction to adamov who tries to combine them. Consequently, the final period is that of "subjectivo-objectivity". In this theatre, the conscious coexists with the unconscious, the real with the unreal and the curable with the incurable. It is a tool of exorcizing as well as of denunciation. Due to this new aethetics, adamov has produced two masterpieces: off limits and si l'ete revenait. In spite of the difference of these periods, we must stress on the fact that the theatre of adamov represent an undeniable unity
Evstratov, Alexei. "Le théâtre francophone à Saint-Pétersbourg sous le règne de Catherine II (1762-1796) : organisation, circulation et symboliques des spectacles dramatiques." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040149.
Full textEighteenth-Century Russia was a period of accelerating modernisation, where specifically, under the reign of Catherine II, the new Empire launched into the international political scene. Despite real diplomatic hostility between France and Russia during the period, French theatre was always considered the most perfect expression of the dramatic arts. French theatre was imported into Russia as an important means to provide and influence social and political representation.From the earliest studies, including Robert-Aloys Mooser’s work on the opéra-comique, this important period of Francophone theatre in Russia has never been systematically analysed. Thus the first goal of this present study is to gather the diverse and geographically dispersed elements regarding the Francophone theatre of Russian courts at the time. A chronological list of these performances, as well as an inventory of plays preformed, accompanies this study as a separate volume. My second goal is to explore the diffusion of these dramatic texts and theatrical practices in Saint Petersburg in an analytical essay on the sociology and ideology of theatrical circulation. Although the main stage of the capital was at the Russian court, this was not the only theatrical venue: the city’s theatre, school stages, théâtres de société (private theatres owned by local nobility)—several theatrical enterprises welcomed Francophone performances at the time. After having examined how these theatres were influenced by the court, I analyse the reasons behind this dramatic diversity and its affect on the theatrical experiences of Russia’s multiple theatre publics
Fondu, Quentin. "La Scène et l'Amphithéâtre : sociologie et histoire de la discipline des études théâtrales en France et dans les deux Allemagnes (1945-2000)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021EHES0004.
Full textThis thesis is about the history of the discipline of theatre studies in France and in the two Germanies, from 1945 to the early 2000s. It examines the historical and social conditions in order to understand its emergence and development. My main hypothesis is that the creation of this discipline happened at the intersection of the academic and theatrical fields, and at the crossroads of local, national and international logics. Unlike older disciplines, theatre studies avows a larger openness vis-a-vis logics external to the academic world, both in terms of training and job prospects. Participating perhaps in the contemporary challenges to “disciplinary order”, the history of this discipline must also be resituated within the broader metamorphosis of theatre and the university over the course of this period. Our approach relies on historical sociology, whose aim is to bring together methods from history and sociology in order to simultaneously think about events, institutional history, and structural analysis. Without abandoning the basis for comparison between France and the two Germanies, our methodology also draws heavily from histoire croisée, which allows us to broaden the scope of our analysis without accepting at face value the national framework of the discipline
Diese Dissertation behandelt die Geschichte der Disziplin der Theaterwissenschaft in Frankreich und im geteilten Deutschland, von 1945 bis zum Beginn der 2000er Jahre. Sie untersucht die historischen und sozialen Bedingungen, die es ermöglichen, ihre Entstehung und Entwicklung zu verstehen. Die zentrale Hypothese ist, dass die Konstituierung dieser Disziplin durch die Verbindung des akademischen und theatralischen Bereichs und dem Zusammenwirken lokaler, nationaler und internationaler Logiken ermöglicht wurde. Im Gegensatz zu älteren Disziplinen beansprucht die Theaterwissenschaft in der Tat eine größere Offenheit gegenüber Logiken außerhalb der akademischen Welt, sowohl in Bezug auf Ausbildung als auch auf Karrierewege. Die Geschichte dieser Disziplin, die wohl an der gegenwärtigen Krise der "Disziplinarordnung" teil hat, muss daher in die breiteren Metamorphosen des Theaters und der Universität in dieser Periode - insbesondere in ihre jeweiligen Internationalisierungen und Politisierungen - eingeordnet werden. Der Ansatz dieser Dissertation basiert auf der historischen Soziologie, die darauf abzielt, die Methoden der Geschichte und der Soziologie zu kombinieren, um Ereignisse, die Institutionengeschichte und die Strukturanalyse gleichermaßen zu berücksichtigen. Ohne die Prinzipien des Vergleichs zwischen Frankreich und den beiden deutschen Staaten aufzugeben, verdankt die Methodologie auch viel der histoire croisée, die es erlaubt, die Skalen der Analyse zu multiplizieren, ohne a priori den nationalen Rahmen der Theaterwissenschaft vorwegzunehmen
Osenda, Natacha Veronica. "Formas de colaboración artística y reinterpretaciones de la última dictadura militar en Argentina : Teatro Abierto (1981-1985) y Teatroxlaidentidad (2001-2005) en las disputas por reconfigurar el imaginario de nación." Paris, EHESS, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EHES0009.
Full textI study how memories are produced and forgotten in argentine society by examining the relative success of the theatrical productions of two groups, Teatro Abierto, at the end of the 1 970s, and Teatroxlaidentidad, at the start of the twenty -first century, both of which participated in collective actions portraying the military government (1976-1983) as responsible for the dismemberment of that which the state had previously re-invented, the nation. My research is based on the study of the intentions behind the artists' production of cultural objects in accordance with their interests and objectives, their social position as intellectuals, and their valuations, categorizations, and judgments, all of which limit and influence those cultural objects (on one hand, the bonds of national belonging that have always been a constant source of dispute in Argentina, and on the other rand, certain cultural objects central in literature and theatre and which were colonized by the republican elites in the earl y days of the formation of nation-states in latin america in service of the initial construction of nationhood), in hopes of persuading the greatest possible number of spectators that a rupture of social normalcy had occurred
Toubiana, Dany. "Dramaturgies d'expression française : des théâtres de la subversion." Paris 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA030058.
Full textFrench is spoken by more 200 millions people throughout the world. Since the sixties, many french speaking theatres arose with their own specificities. They squeeze out subversion in ancient colonized countries like Subsaharian Africa, Maghreb but also Quebec and some overseas french departments like french West Indies and La Réunion. Subversion is the link between all these french speaking theatres. How do the plays respond to one another in these different countries? Every theatre is a place for subversion but through politics and History, french speaking theatres are proposing an other view of it. Women, lunatics and ghosts who are common characters in many plays crush this subversion in a new way. Last part of this survey will study how french speaking theatres transform space and time but also theatrical patterns like tragedy and language, playing with this subversive posture
Arthéron, Axel. "Les théâtres afro-caribéens d'expression française au XXème siècle face à la Révolution de Saint-Domingue : dramaturgies révolutionnaires et enjeux populaires." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030161.
Full textThe appearance in the 50’ of afro-Caribbean’s pieces setting up the Dominican Revolution proves to be symbolic. Announced by the creation of La Tragedie du Roi Christophe from Aimé Césaire by Jean-Marie Serreau and the Toucan Troupe, these theatricals expressions will go towards defining a proper theatrical type- possessing his own characteristics, his writing codes, his connection with history and historical characters, and above all, his purpose, his finality : his political and popular function. The articulation between the choice of theater, the political theme of the Dominican Revolution and the stakes of the second half of the 20th Century will constitute the insignia of the historical revolutionary theater, both political and popular
Bocianowski, Cécile. "Les dramaturgies du grotesque en Europe au XXe siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040066.
Full textThis thesis proposes a comparative reading of the use of grotesque in French, Polish, French-speaking Belgian, German-speaking Italian and Spanish theatre so as to determinate the specificities of the grotesque and its reception in different cultural areas. It focuses in the first part on the theory of the notion in arts, from decorative to dramatic art, from Renaissance to the twentieth century. Special attention is given to the grotesque dance, which has been thus far insufficiently studied, and to the discrepancies between western and eastern critical discourses. The comparative analysis of the grotesque is conducted along three axes: deformation, excessiveness and hybridity. It emphasises the function of marionette, pantomime and the inspiration of circus, carnival and cabaret. The last part of the thesis concentrates on the hypothesis of a grotesque dramatic genre in Europe in twentieth century. Once established the theoretical basis of the reflexion upon genre, and in view of contemporary dramatic production, the thesis closes with the determination of the place of the grotesque in the creation and in the criticism. By calling into question traditional periodisation of European twentieth theatre, this thesis aims at giving its place to the grotesque in contemporary dramatic criticism as the shaping of the misshapen
Montes, Melendi Maria. "Le "nouveau théâtre", le masque, le jeu et le tragique dans l'oeuvre dramatique de Virgilio Piñera." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030106.
Full textThis thesis examines the theatrical production of Virgilio Piñera (1912 – 1979) via the major dramatic and theatrical ideas which overlap in his plays, in which their fundamental characteristic is to find a place in the “New Theatre” of the 1950s. This assertion is confirmed by analyzing the principal dramatic categories, and the development of several of these towards a perfection of the “new form”. In addition, we show that in many plays there is an oblique or veiled allusion to a Cuban reality which, while enriching the text, leaves the spectator free to interpret according to his experience of the context, or lack thereof. This constitutes a particular feature of the theatre of Piñera. Studying the “game”, in the larger sense of the word, enables us to approach the repeated use of theatricality, parody, and intertextuality which is unique to this playwright. These resources, which we find in the “New Theatre” in Europe (Ionesco, Beckett), show a link between the work of Piñera and this movement. Finally, in questioning the tragic element, we provide evidence that this Cuban playwright’s vision of the world is inseparable from his conception of human nature and of the human condition. By showing a violence inherent in the world, and by employing various dramatic categories, this tragic vision is supported and takes form in his plays. Questioning these various themes permits us to reveal unexplored aspects of Piñera’s theatre and to show the renewal of the tragic element by this playwright
Bousiopoulou, Efthalia. "Personne tragique-personnage tragique dans les écritures dramatiques contemporaines en France et en Grèce." Thesis, Lille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LIL3H018.
Full textContemporary playwriting turns often towards the tragic Greek myth as source of inspiration.However, the concept of “the tragic” is far from being evident, sometimes understood in anexistential meaning, tightly attached to the German philosophical thought who has given it birth,sometimes in an esthetic meaning, as a result of its close relation to the genre of tragedy. Thepresent study examines the concept of tragic in contemporary plays of different origin: moreprecisely, we study twelve plays, French and Greek, that cover the second half of the twentiethcentury in the broadest sense, characterized by the use of the tragic myth or of tragic motifs. Ourapproach is based on two axes: on one hand we examine the notion of character, a fundamentalelement of a dramatic work, in his becoming tragic. In this way and according to the two phasesof what we call “the tragic movement”, the character, after passing from the identity to the alterityof self, he then “chooses” himself as a finite being, or, in other words, as a being “inscribed indeath”; finally, he arrives at the point of transcendence of his own finitude. On the other hand, weexamine the notion of the tragic person, namely the conception of the “real” human, as it isformulated on the basis of the tragic hero, by the reader/spectator. The meaning of the tragicperson lies in a passage from the ordinary world to a “new reality”, where the becoming of thehuman being and the openness to the Other dominates. In this context, the spectator experiencesthe catharsis that can be identified with the “tragic joy”
Ndome, Ngilla Sylvie. "Nouvelles dramaturgies francophones africaines du chaos." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030076.
Full textA new type of African Francophone theater has emerged since the 1990s, which announced a breaking point within the African literary landscape. This generation of contemporary writers from the African diaspora engages with notions of fragmentation, displacement, and instability that suggest a reconfiguration of chaos in Francophone African literary productionsince the Independences. The history of African literatures since 1960, when a large majorityof former African colonies became independent, is marked by the theme of chaos with significant differences. Indeed, between 1960 and 1970, writers of the « disenchantment »denounce social and political chaos in Africa following the emergence of new dictatorships inthe post-independence period, African theatrical aesthetics by the end of the 1970s andthrough the 1980s, on the contrary, work on an exit out of the African chaos from the perspective of revalorization, providing modern contextualizations for African myths andtraditions. Since the early 1990s a rupture is established within new African theater that creates a performative space of « chaos-monde », which manifests the hybrid reality of the African diaspora at local and global levels. By reading accross theatrical works by this generation that include Caya Makélé (Congo), Koffi Kwahulé (Ivory Coast), Marcel Zang(Cameroon), José Pliya (Benin), Kossi Efoui (Togo), and Dieudonné Niangouna (Congo), Ished light on the new techniques and aesthetics of an energetic chaos. A close examination ofthese new settings of chaos allows for a better understanding of the diasporic nature and transnational perspective from contemporary African theater
Tarnagda, Boukary. "Processus de création théâtrale contemporaine en Afrique subsaharienne francophone : vers une poétique de la relation." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REN20009.
Full textDriven by the desire to discover and exploit the resources in Africa, the westerners brought their cultures there and in particular the French language. By integrating with the daily life of the inhabitants, this language has exported the different elements of its culture, including the theatre which is now at the heart of encounters between French and French-speaking sub-Saharan artists.By the prism of major events such as festivals, artists have found central spaces of expression on both continents. So, they were able to build working relationships with their peers in the world. At certain levels, the exchanges that followed made it possible to have fruitful meetings during events such as Festival of Francophone in Limousin, but also FITMO/FAB in Burkina Faso, and FITHEB in Benin, all events emanating from French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa.With globalisation, encounters between playwrights sometimes result in exchanges within the texts produced. They lead to working relationships that lead to hybridization and mixing which undoubtedly transform the contents of the dramaturgical productions. Based on a corpus of texts by contemporary authors, we formulate here the hypothesis that exchanges between artists transform the conditions of production as the aesthetics in force, this dynamics generating the emergency of a poetic of the relationship
Obis, Eleonore. "Le corps en jeu dans le théâtre anglais contemporain (1983-2010) : Edward Bond, Howard Barker, Martin Crimp et Sarah Kane." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040262.
Full textThe theatre is a privileged site to understand the body, because of the copresence of the body of the actor and that of the spectator during the representation. It is the privileged arena where we can observe the consequences of the upheavals that changed the conventions in representation in the course of the twentieth century. English contemporary theatre attracts our attention both to the spectacle of a suffering body, which is also exposed and violated (In-yer-face theatre, the theatre of Catastrophe) and that of a spectral body, in a theatre influenced by Beckett. These two trends – the body as spectacle and the spectral body – are the visible signs of a crisis in the representation of the body and the deconstruction of the subject. The authors chosen for this study (Edward Bond, Howard Barker, Martin Crimp and Sarah Kane) are the figureheads of a non-naturalistic, poetic and subversive theatre. The body is at the core of their aesthetics. Our contention is to develop an anatomy of the “aesthetic body” (Roland Barthes) with a comparative approach of the works, and to investigate the role of the body in all the different fields of representation: How does the text create a body? How does the body invade the text? What are the strategies at stake to represent the body in the translation from page to stage? How is the body of the actor used? How is the spectator’s body affected? Because it seems there is no such thing as “the” body, the theatres of the “body-at-play” try to reassess the limitless potential of the body, to deliver it from all constraints, and to expose the lability of the character’s body, as well as the actor’s and the spectator’s
Boula, de Mareuil Marie-Isabelle. "Le Jeu avec le passé dans le drame contemporain : Patrick Kermann, Jean-Luc Lagarce, Philippe Minyana." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030066.
Full textContemporary theatre answers the requirement of a theater writing of the time by renewing in particular its form, its language and its addressee. Drama is no longer an “action” taking place in the present. It becomes the expression of a return, that of the past. Playing with the past corresponds to endless comings and goings from the past to drama and from drama to the past. This study focuses on nine plays written between 1980 and 2000 by three French dramatists, Patrick Kermann, Jean-Luc Lagarce and Philippe Minyana. In these writings, the past claims its place [and takes it] in the performance actuality. By investing the whole drama structure, it disrupts the organization of speech, the representation of space and the possibility of action. This claiming also proceeds from the return of the dead and to death. Whereas catastrophe already took place, disaster keeps on damaging and deconstructing the fable. Played by the past, drama and its protagonists testify an inheritance left “by no testament”. Deprived of identity, the character accepts or suffers the way he is played, without necessarily and systematically managing to offer an interpretation
Padovani, Delphine. "Le théâtre du monde chez les auteurs dramatiques contemporains francophones. Valère Novarina, Pierre Guyotat, Didier-Georges Gabily, Olivier Py, Joël Pommerat, Daniel Danis." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON30029/document.
Full textThis thesis deals with the characteristics of the theatre of the world metaphor, as they appear in several contemporary french-speaking plays. Seven plays have been selected as images of the world, since they summon various emblematic elements of life on earth: humans, animals and flora, and emphasize their interaction in a universal surroundings. Firstly, the principal academic contributions concerning the historical notion of theatre of the world are gathered and commented. The main part of the research consists of the demonstration of the metaphor's contemporary extensions, through the study of the corpus. The analysis of each play is preceded by a presentation of its author's writing motivations and motives. Then, the play itself is examined carefully with the help of a reading grid which focuses successively on the dramatic categories : characters, space and time, actions, stage directions. Thus, the thesis's body is built as an exploration of seven variations of the theatre of the world, beginning with the most abstract one and leading to the most organic one. A synthesis ends this journey, pointing out that the plays match three composition patterns, which induces many combinations of the dramatic categories. This classification unveils the ambition at the origin of each writing project. In conclusion, it appears that the theatre of the world, generally considered as an old topos which refers to the theatrality of human life, is a framework strong enough to stand up to the poetics of comtemporary drama, and vast enough to house the most singular dramaturgic inventions
Gay, Marie-Christine. "Le théâtre français « de l’absurde » en RFA (1949-1989) : créations et réceptions des œuvres d’Adamov, Beckett, Genet et Ionesco outre-Rhin." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100155/document.
Full textAt the end of the 1940s, a new theatrical avant-garde appears on the small stages of the Left Bank in Paris: the theatre of the “absurd”, as conceptualised by the British drama critic Martin Esslin. This innovative dramatic writing style succeeds in establishing itself with the French and international public, and enjoys a long-lasting success in West German theatres. This thesis aims at uncovering the process of cultural transfer and the modes of reception in the Federal Republic of Germany through the main representatives of this movement: Arthur Adamov, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet and Eugène Ionesco. Based on previously unpublished archival sources, this work retraces the path of the mediators of this cultural import, follows the chronology of the reception and highlights the diversity of the types of media used: theatre, radio and television. The individual steps through which the theatrical works were circulated in the West German theatre landscape between 1949 and 1989 will be analysed from the discovery by publishing houses via different translations, to major stage productions and finally the acceptance by the theatrical press and the general public. Thanks to its cosmopolitan nature, the theatre of the “absurd” was endowed by the West German host culture with an international dimension that contributed to its successful integration. Hence this study opens a new chapter in the history of Germany, its culture and theatre as well as, more widely, the French-German cultural relations
Jambrina, Nina. "Politique du jeu : les dispositifs ludiques dans la dramaturgie latino-américaine contemporaine (Fabio Rubiano, Rafael Spregelburd et Gabriel Calderón)." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOU20004/document.
Full textAt first glance, there is not much to be said about the relation between play and politics. And yet, this thesis questions the gap between playful mode and political perspective at a time when the latter is being asked to renew its theatrical forms and means in a more general context of disavowal of the political practice since the end of the 1980s. As part of an open dialogue between the Latin-American experience and the rest of the international scene, this work focuses on the ways in which the play model participates in a redefinition of a theatre striving to be political. First, it allows for the apprehension of transformations within the Latin-American theatrical context of the end of the 20th Century when its model of a politically engaged theatre was being questioned. Furthermore, it becomes a tool to study texts by Fabio Rubiano (b. 1963, Colombia) Rafael Spregelburd (b. 1970, Argentina) and Gabriel Calderón (b. 1982, Uruguay), and their specific articulation to the political. A politics of play, following Jacques Rancière’s “politics of aesthetics”, is being charted here, and it allows for the political perspective to exist as a critique of the present and as a desire for transformation, based on its own relation to the real, production of meaning and idea of the viewer. Between politics and play, two main directions can be drawn out within this corpus. Play first functions as a paradoxical means for a critique. It creates playful heteropias which distance themselves from the present to better outline the dystopic map of its flaws and failures. Subsequently or simultaneously, it complicates this first critical interpretation with formal and fictional experimentations which put forth creativity itself. Although the utopic impact of these experimentations varies according to the text and its author, they still participate in formulating the premise of a transformation to come
¿Qué relaciones podemos establecer entre juego y política? Supuestamente, muy pocas. Esta tesis quiere sin embargo cuestionar la aparente divergencia entre el modo lúdico y la perspectiva política cuando ella se encuentra con la obligación de repensar sus formas dentro de un contexto de sospecha general hacia la actividad política desde el final de los años ochenta. A través de un dialogo abierto entre la experiencia latinoamericana y los escenarios teatrales internacionales, este estudio observa como el modelo del juego participa en redefinir un teatro político para hoy en día. Por una parte, el juego permite entender las transformaciones experimentadas por el contexto teatral latinoamericano al final del siglo XX frente a las alteraciones de su modelo dominante de teatro político comprometido. Por otra parte, permite estudiar los textos de Fabio Rubiano (Colombia, 1963) Rafael Spregelburd (Argentina, 1970) y Gabriel Calderón (Uruguay, 1982), en su articulación especifica con lo político. Allí surge una política del juego, en los pasos de la reflexión sobre la “política de la estética” por Jacques Rancière, que dispone la perspectiva política, como crítica hacia el presente y deseos de transformación, desde una relación con lo real, una producción de sentido y una concepción del espectador que le son propios. Entre juego y política, dos dinámicas principales se desarrollan en los textos. Primero, el juego se presenta como una medio paradoxal para la crítica. Dispone heteropías lúdicas que se distinguen de la realidad para poder pintar de manera distópica las fallas y los mancamientos del presente. Después o simultáneamente, el juego desordena la interpretación critica inicial a través de exploraciones ficcionales y formales que subrayan la creatividad en sí misma. La dimensión utópica de estas experimentaciones va cambiando según los textos y los autores pero todas obran a constituir las premisas de unas transfiguraciones por venir
Street, Anna. "Comedy of the Impossible : The Power of Play in Post-war European Theatre." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040179.
Full textBy tracing the development of theories of comedy within Western philosophy, this thesis claims that anti-comic prejudices prevented comedy from being recognized as a serious genre. Comedy’s inferior status for over two thousand years is shown to correspond to an ethical model that distinguishes the real from the Ideal and affirms a Neo-Platonic vision of existence. Through numerous examples taken from a particular phenomenon of post-war European theatre comprising five different playwrights, this thesis proposes three primary characteristics of comedy: the ontological instability of comic characters, comedy’s paradoxical relation to the world of appearances, and comedy’s willingness to accommodate the impossible. By throwing binaries into question and promoting a complete reversal of dominant value systems, comedy blurs the lines of distinction between the abstract and the concrete, the mechanical and the organic and, ultimately, between life and death. Demonstrating how this reversal is accomplished linguistically, metaphorically, or dramaturgically, this study concludes that comedy subverts the socio-symbolic order that relies upon the logic of possibility
Ayache, Solange. "‘In-Yer-Head’ Theatre : Staging the Mind in Contemporary British Drama. Towards a Quantum Psychopoetics of the Stage." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040010.
Full textThis study asserts that the human mind has become the new frontier in contemporary British drama, and interrogates and assesses manifestations of this movement which stages uncharted regions of thought and the dark territories of traumatic mindscapes. Drawing on theories from psychoanalysis and cognitive science, and inspired by the paradigm shifts of quantum mechanics and its interrogations on the role and nature of consciousness, this new theatre moves from “in-yer-face” to “in-yer-head” and away from the sensibility of the “nasty nineties.” Plays by Crimp, Kane, Churchill, Cooper, Frayn, Stephens, Payne, Haddon and others deconstruct and reconstruct the character as thevirtual sum of all her possibilities. In these mental spaces, the subject’s speculative, diffracted and plural mode of existence redefines psychological realism and stage realism. Examining the modalities of a quantum “psychopoetics” around key concepts such as probability and uncertainty, I show how metaphors borrowed from quantum theory based on the double slit-experiment, the wave-particle duality, the wavefunction collapse, the observer effect, quantum decoherence, quantum entanglement, and the many-worlds interpretation are used to emphasise the intrinsic indeterminacy of our minds. They evoke a number of psychological defense mechanisms and other symptoms that constitute the subjective reality of disturbed minds affected by trauma, psychosis, stress or neurological disease. By exploring the nature of mind, the self, and reality, and the condition of women, these plays address philosophical questions about free will and choice in a world that has become more uncertain and unpredictable than ever