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- Title
L'édition théâtrale contemporaine et ses enjeux. Robert Lepage, Le projet Andersen, 2007; Wajdi Mouawad, Seuls. Chemin, texte et peintures, 2008.
- Authors
Burtin, Tatiana
- Abstract
This article analyzes two noteworthy examples of new theatre-related publishing practices in Quebec in the last decade: Robert Lepage, a pioneer of stage writing that makes use of sound, images and modern technology, and Wajdi Mouawad, an inheritor of Lepage's practices who embraces a more deliberate literary approach. Both offer crystallized moments of their shifting reflections as authors and men of the theatre with their respective works, Le projet Andersen and Seuls. These texts claim a unique authorial status for the authordirector, one that distances itself from traditional literature but that reclaims the book by reintroducing it into the multimedia arena of the contemporary stage. Complex, hypertextual, multimedia objects, their books extend the transcribed and reinvented show before us. Mouawad invites the reader to explore the origin of the show, following its fleeting (and fictional?) trace back through the phases of artistic genesis into the author's own psyche. Lepage indicates what happens behind the scenes and lays bare the theatrical machine. The two stage directors nevertheless seem to share an explicit or unavowed desire to find their voice as theatre authors through a polyphonic text. They solicit the help of a patient but by no means passive reader who, by reading the documents bequeathed to him, reconstructs the meaning of a stage writing that is both multifaceted and doomed to fade away.
- Subjects
LEPAGE, Robert, 1957-; MOUAWAD, Wajdi, 1968-; CANADIAN theater; PLAYWRITING; AUTHORS &; theater
- Publication
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Société Bibliographique du Canada, 2014, Vol 52, Issue 2, p415
- ISSN
0067-6896
- Publication type
Article