Contemporary French Theatre and Performance

1. Introduction
Clare Finburgh, Carl Lavery

Part 1. Contemporary French Theatre

2. From Mise en Scène of Texte to Performance of ‘Textual Material’
David Bradby

3. The Spirit of a Place: Place in Contemporary French Theatre
Michel Corvin

4. The Landscaped Narratives of Phillipe Minyana and Noëlle Renaude
Céline Hersant

5. The Politics of Dramaturgy in France
Clare Finburgh

6. An Unlikely Scene: French Theatre in the New Liberal Economy
Jean-Pierre Han

7. The Construction and Production of Performance
Robert Cantarella

8. Performing Presence, Affirming Difference: Deleuze and the Minor Theatres of Georges Lavaudant and Carmelo Bene
Laura Cull

9. Théâtre du Grabuge: Ethics, Politics and Community
Bérénice Hamidi-Kim

10. Amateurism and the ‘DIY’ Aesthetic: Grand Magasin and Phillipe Quesne
Chloé Déchery

Part 2. Contemporary French Performance

11. From Orlan to Bernhardt: Recycling French Feminism, Theatre and Performance
Elaine Aston

12. Performance and Poetry: Crossed Destinies
Éric Vautrin

13. Breaking Down the Walls: Interventionist Performance Strategies in French Street Theatre
Susan Haedicke

14. Montage and Détournement in Contemporary French Moving Image Performance
Carl Lavery

15. Xavier le Roy: The Dissenting Choreography of One Frenchman Less
Bojana Cvejic

16. A Theological Turn? French Postmodern Dance and Herman Diephuis’s D’Après J.-C.
Nigel Stewart

17. Watching People in the Light: Jérôme Bel and the Classical Theatre
Augusto Corrieri

18. Après toutes ces elles/After All this Else: ‘New’ French Feminisms Translated to the British Scene
Geraldine Harris

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Performing Arts, Theatre History, Dance, Theatre and Performance Studies