Rereading Moliere: Mise en Scene from Antoine to Vitez investigates
the strategies employed by some of the most influential French
directors of the present century to create radical interpretations
of Moliere's classic texts. At the same time, the book explores how
these reinterpretations of Moliere's popular comedies have
articulated a revisionist version of French cultural history. The
book focuses on five productions of two Moliere plays: Andre
Antoine's and Jacque Arnavon's 1907 Tartuffe, Arnavon's 1936 School
for Wives, Roger Planchon's two productions of Tartuffe in the
1960s and 1970s, and Antoine Vitez's Moliere tetralogy of 1978.
These productions represent not only some of the best stagings of
Moliere in this century, but also key moments in the history of
French theater, as each one marks an important development in the
ways that plays from the classical period were staged in France.
Taken together, these productions constitute an almost century-long
exploration of the status and identity of "the classics" in
twentieth-century French theater. At the same time, these
productions reveal an abiding interest in exploring the
ever-shifting understanding of the Grand Siecle, the Golden Age of
the seventeenth century, as a value in modern and contemporary
French culture. Rereading Moliere examines a range of critical
issues: the relationship between director and playwright as
manifested in directors' attitudes to the classic text;
developments in directors' strategies for adapting the dramaturgy
and scenography of the 1660s to the aesthetics of the twentieth
century; and developments in directors' responses to the ideologies
of "fidelity" and "realism".
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