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- Title
Le Festival de Théâtre des Amériques.
- Authors
MacDougall, Jill
- Abstract
This article highlights the second biennial Theatre Festival of the Americas held in Montreal, Quebec from May 26 to June 1987. The event brought together companies from Argentina, Brazil, English- and French-speaking Canada, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, the U.S., and Venezuela. The festival was, in the words of its directors, Marie-Hélène Falcon and Jacques Vézina, a subjective potential ordering of fragments, of artistic experiences, that best reveal, through their sheer power and uniqueness, the complexity and wealth of theater in the Americas. The productions ranged from austere monologs to spectacular epics, from concentration on the actor to her/his total fusion in other media, from minimal text to verbal profusion. Above and beyond formal differences and ideological or cultural particularities, the festival reflected a basic concern for the survival of the human race and the necessity of exchange between peoples. All of the participants were representative of peripheral, subversive voices challenging the dominant, mass-diffused voice that loudly resounds through the Americas. INSET: Le Festival de Théâtre des Amériques.
- Subjects
MONTREAL (Quebec); QUEBEC (Province); PERFORMING arts; DRAMA festivals; THEATER
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 1988, Vol 32, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1145864