The Paris jigsaw

Internationalism and the city's stages

By: David Bradby (Editor), Maria M. Delgado (Editor), Maggie B. Gale (Editor), Peter Lichtenfels (Editor)

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Paperback | 25 April 2002

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Paris has always exerted a magnetic force on artists; it has historically offered safety to those escaping oppressive regimes in Europe and farther afield. In recent years it has welcomed performers, artists and intellectuals from all over the world, offering strategies for the practice of theatre in a new Europe of ever-shifting boundaries.

This book, once again available in paperback, examines the creation and development of communities of actors, directors, designers and playwrights in Paris over the past thirty years. It shows how the willingness of the city to welcome international influences has enriched its creative life. Many of the most important trends and new developments in the art of theatre have been the direct result of the creative combination of influences from all over the world.

This study demonstrates how the pioneering work of Brook, Boal, Mnouchkine, Lecoq and many others has been able to draw on this vibrant, multi-cultural mix, in turn creating new work that has enriched theatre's potential to enlarge our thinking and our imagination.

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment Acting & Theatre Studies Individual Actors & Directors Theatre Management Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current Literary Studies of Plays & Playwrights Politics & Government

List of illustrations	p. viii
Notes on the contributors	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Editors' note	p. xvii
Introduction: piecing together the Paris jigsaw	p. 1
Case studies
Peter Brook and the CICT (Le Centre International de Creations Theatrales)
'Towards an art of memory': Peter Brook, a foreigner in Paris	p. 37
'Playful understanding': an interview with David Bennent	p. 53
'The quality of understanding': an interview with Bruce Myers	p. 58
'Communication and the blood of the stage': an interview with Yoshi Oida	p. 65
Peter Brook and the Freedom of intercultural theatre	p. 71
Jacques Lecoq and his 'Ecole Internationale de Theatre' in Paris
The legacy of Lecoq	p. 83
The pedagogy of the poetic body	p. 93
Jacques Lecoq and his influence in Catalonia	p. 102
Ariane Mnouchkine and the Theatre du Soleil
Cultural politics and theatrical practice in the history of the Theatre du Soleil	p. 113
Travels with the Soleil	p. 131
Augusto Boal and the Theatre de l'Opprime
Augusto Boal and the journey to the Centre of the Theatre of the Oppressed (Paris)	p. 146
'The crossing of many cultures': an interview with Augusto Boal	p. 153
'Placing two things together, you create a third': an interview with Rui Frati	p. 166
The input of different national theatre traditions to the 'internationalism' of Paris theatre
The German presence
The German presence in Paris	p. 177
The Russian presence
The Russian presence in Paris 1988-2000	p. 186
The Spanish presence
'City of Light': an interview with Fernando Arrabal	p. 198
Spanish presence on the contemporary Parisian stage	p. 199
'Paris as a kind of meeting point': an email interview with Lluis Pasqual	p. 211
The Latin American presence
An Argentine in Paris: an interview with Jorge Lavelli	p. 218
The North American presence
Did Paris steal the show for American postmodern directors?	p. 232
Creating the theatrical museum: theatrical visions of an alternative America; cultural politics and the Festival d'Automne, 1972-2000	p. 248
The African presence
The African presence in Paris	p. 267
'Looking outside of Europe': a conversation with Sylvie Chalaye	p. 270
Afterword: British intersections with Paris	p. 277
Index	p. 287
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