Contemporary French Theatre and Performance

ELAINE ASTON Professor of Contemporary Performance, Lancaster University, UK DAVID BRADBY Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ROBERT CANTARELLA independent scholar, France AUGUSTO CORRIERI independent scholar, UK MICHEL CORVIN Emeritus Professor of Theatre Studies, Universite Paris-III -- Sorbonne nouvelle, France LAURA CULL Lecturer in Performing Arts, Northumbria University, UK BOJANA CVEJIC Lecturer in Contemporary Dance and Performance in the Department for Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands CHLOAe DAeCHERY independent scholar, France SUSAN HAEDICKE Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Performance, and Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK BAeRENICE HAMIDI-KIM Lecturer, Universite de Lyon 2, France GERALDINE HARRIS Professor in Theatre Studies, Lancaster University, UK CAeLINE HERSANT Lecturer, Universite Paris-III--Sorbonne nouvelle, France JEAN-PIERRE HAN Director of the Syndicat Professionnel de la Critique, France NIGEL STEWARY Senior Lecturer in the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, UK AeRIC VAUTRIN Maitre de Conferences, Universite de Caen, Basse-Normandie, France

This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured in France.This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured in France.