Staging at the Théâtre des Funambules: The spectacular, mime, and poetry
Nye, Edward
Staging at the Théâtre des Funambules: The spectacular, mime, and poetry - 2020.
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The most famous mime actor of the nineteenth century, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, brought a distinctive aspect to the mise en scène of the visual, non-spoken genre of theatre, the pantomime-arlequinade. His unusually subtle, expressive and dialogistic mime alternated with the more usual spectacular staging, giving an overall rhythm not unlike that of speech and song in contemporary vaudeville or recitative and aria in opera. The result was enormously popular, including among high-profile writers and poets like Banville, Baudelaire and Gautier whose observations on the pantomime-arlequinade can only properly be understood when we recognise this binary mise en scène.
Staging at the Théâtre des Funambules: The spectacular, mime, and poetry - 2020.
18
The most famous mime actor of the nineteenth century, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, brought a distinctive aspect to the mise en scène of the visual, non-spoken genre of theatre, the pantomime-arlequinade. His unusually subtle, expressive and dialogistic mime alternated with the more usual spectacular staging, giving an overall rhythm not unlike that of speech and song in contemporary vaudeville or recitative and aria in opera. The result was enormously popular, including among high-profile writers and poets like Banville, Baudelaire and Gautier whose observations on the pantomime-arlequinade can only properly be understood when we recognise this binary mise en scène.
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