Memories of Oblivion: On the Margins of the Repertoire from Antiquity to the Present Day. Theatre Studies 44-45.
Theater studies.| N° d'inventaire | 29445 |
| Format | 15 x 25 |
| Détails | 174 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2009 |
| Etat | Occasion |
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This volume examines a key concept in historical and contemporary staging practices, that of repertoire, by tackling it from the back of its head, starting from its silences and its margins. At the confluence of cultural policy, the sociology of theatrical practices, literary history, the history of publishing and the analysis of performances, this collection of articles and interviews articulates the words of performing arts researchers and stage practitioners: it opens the way to a new reflection on the processes of legitimation, sometimes implicit, which guide both the form of our artistic practices and the way in which our aesthetic judgments, our categories of thought and perception, our systems of representation are formed. Using symptomatic cases drawn from the forgotten theatrical repertoire from Antiquity to the present day, the aim is to attempt to identify the accreditation mechanisms and to identify the actors in the selection and exclusion processes which lead to the relegation of certain plays, certain authors and certain cultures to the limbo of our theatres.
In the course of these studies, the contours of another possible repertoire are also emerging, through which the features of a counter-history of stage practices are revealed, real and continuous, if not official and recognized, which bears witness to tensions still at work within an artistic field, caught between the need for symbolic recognition and the potential to question the world and the principles that organize it.
This volume examines a key concept in historical and contemporary staging practices, that of repertoire, by tackling it from the back of its head, starting from its silences and its margins. At the confluence of cultural policy, the sociology of theatrical practices, literary history, the history of publishing and the analysis of performances, this collection of articles and interviews articulates the words of performing arts researchers and stage practitioners: it opens the way to a new reflection on the processes of legitimation, sometimes implicit, which guide both the form of our artistic practices and the way in which our aesthetic judgments, our categories of thought and perception, our systems of representation are formed. Using symptomatic cases drawn from the forgotten theatrical repertoire from Antiquity to the present day, the aim is to attempt to identify the accreditation mechanisms and to identify the actors in the selection and exclusion processes which lead to the relegation of certain plays, certain authors and certain cultures to the limbo of our theatres.
In the course of these studies, the contours of another possible repertoire are also emerging, through which the features of a counter-history of stage practices are revealed, real and continuous, if not official and recognized, which bears witness to tensions still at work within an artistic field, caught between the need for symbolic recognition and the potential to question the world and the principles that organize it.