Actors in Search of Theatre’s Quintessence

• Authors: Erica Letailleur
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

At the border between the fields of anthropology of theatre and phenomenology, this article presents and analyses the answers given by a sample of French theatre actors to an apparently simple question: How would you define your art? One could have been expect a wide range of answers, which would have reflected the infinite multiplicity of perspectives about that subject. Yet unexpectedly, the author deduces from the field investigation she conducted, a common and almost consensual vision of theatre expressed by these actors: an art in which practitioners are in the poetic quest of themselves, in their most accomplished humanity, in harmony with the self, the Other and the life (le vivant).

Keywords

EN

Anthropology of theatre; phenomenology; poetics; language; aesthetics

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human and Social Studies
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 59-76

Dates

published

2016-10-01

online

2016-10-21

Contributors

author

Erica Letailleur

• Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/hssr-2016-0023