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The Beauty of the Resistible Tyrant: Tamerlan at the Théâtre de l'Épée de Bois

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Brian Singleton
Brian Singleton
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Lecturer in Drama, Trinity College, Dublin.
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‘The Théâtre de l'Épée de Bois offers Free Training in Actor's Workshop’, reads the announcement each year in Libération. The response is minimal. Of the four thousand actors in Paris at any one time, few will apply. The workshop offers on-site training for ‘theatre apprentices’ and most students and experienced actors decline. Of those who attend, few will have the constitution necessary to withstand the mental and physical demands required of those subsequently engaged for production, let alone be prepared for a ten-month rehearsal period, twelve hours a day, unpaid. The Épée de Bois is more than just a theatre company, it is also a school, and a way of life.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , Summer 1991 , pp. 83 - 108
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1991

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Notes

1. La Torture and Martyrs (both 1969) were devised performances of the ‘Groupe de travail de l'Épée de bois’, a working group within the Atelier de l'Érée de Bois led by Antonio Diaz-Florian.

2. The Théâtre du Phénix was founded in 1987 in Chennevières-sur-Marne by Philippe Hottier, a longstanding member of the Théâtre du Soleil. Its first production was La Tragédie d'Ivanov by Chekhov in April 1989 at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris.

3. Un texte poétique qui est simplement transposé sur scène [ … ] se trouve finalemenl appauvri par la représentation, mais un texte dépassé par sa réalisation est en quelquc sorte trahi. L'abus de langage qui appelle “création” la simple transposition d'un texte à la scène ne modifie en rien ce constat: le théâtre fondé sur la littérature se meut à travers ce dilemme, la tranposition ou la trahison. Les expériences d'un théâtre orienté vers la participation active porteront done au-delà du mot sur l'acte.

Marc'O, ‘La Création collective’, La Nef, 29 (01–03 1969), 74–80.Google Scholar

4. Since the production in 1989 the Western World discovered a new dictator in the Middle East.