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Bodies in a Car Park; Or, "Une Comédie Charcutière": Resuscitating Shakespearian Authorship in Contemporary French Street Theatre

[...]I shall argue that, by taking classical drama out of familiar theatrical environments into urban spaces, street theatre challenges the place of the spectator in a performance as well as that of the author. According to Olivier Jeudy, the aim of street theatre is to make audiences look at urban...

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Published in:Comparative drama 2016-06, Vol.50 (2/3), p.145-163
Main Author: Fayard, Nicole
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:[...]I shall argue that, by taking classical drama out of familiar theatrical environments into urban spaces, street theatre challenges the place of the spectator in a performance as well as that of the author. According to Olivier Jeudy, the aim of street theatre is to make audiences look at urban spaces differently and thus to cause its transformation.2 This redefinition of the space of performance was largely inspired by the structuralist and poststructuralist critiques of ideologies associated, among others, with the work of Barthes, Louis Althusser, and Etienne Balibar.
ISSN:0010-4078
1936-1637
1936-1637
DOI:10.1353/cdr.2016.0015