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Re-positioning the dramatic

• Bradby, David

In the course of the past twenty years, radical new developments have changed the nature of text used in avant-garde French performances. Dissatisfied with the take-over by powerful directors, who claim the right of authorship over their own productions, writers for the stage have altered the nature of their creative work. Instead of writing plays, which directors can then come and interpret in their own way, many of the most innovative, who are often themselves actors or directors, claim to produce only "textual material." This "material" typically discards the traditional framework of narrative, character, site, instead mobilizing the voices and movements of actors, and the spaces in which they develop, in a way that recalls abstract art or certain schools of poetry claiming inspiration from Rimbaud and the Symbolist movement of a hundred years ago. Their works range from pure monologue to assemblages of many voices in chorus, often impersonal voices that cannot be attached to a particular speaker. In this way they hark back to the distant origins or drama in choral recitation, while at the same time developing an austere new form of writing that has been described as postdramatic.

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