Les metteurs en scene anglo-canadiens

[Jo�l Beddows]

Bonjour a tous,

Je partage l'avis de Mme Fitzpatrick.

Voila ce qui explique en partie le GRAND succes de l'ecriture de Tompson
Highway.  Il evite a tout prix le naturalisme ou le realisme...et tant mieux.
Mais il n'est pas pas seul a le faire.

Malheureusement, pendant mon sejour a Toronto, j'avais trop souvent
l'impression que les metteur-e-s en scene montaient les textes des dramaturges
anglo-candien-ne-s pour la television, ou pour le cinema.  En effet, tout etait
trop clair...

La dramaturgie anglo-canadienne a change enormement depuis 10 ans.  Mais ou
sont les metteurs en scene pour monter ces nouveaux textes?

Voila une autre raison pour laquelle j'ai hate de voir la version francaise de
Problem Child de George F. Walker a Montreal.  La mise en scene de la version
que j'ai vue a Toronto, montee d'ailleurs par le dramaturge lui-meme,
travaillait contre une ecriture poetique, voir ludique, et surtout theatrale.
Je me sentais devant un ecran et non au theatre.

Je vous serre la main,

Joël Beddows
Universite de Toronto

Elizabeth Fitzpatrick wrote:

> It is my impression - based on just 3 years residence in Canada - that
> Canadian directors seriously underestimate their audience's ability to
> deal with serious and complex emotional and social questions, and with
> "non-naturalistic" forms of staging. The success of certain shows at the
> World Stage Festival in Toronto last Summer I think proved that.
> My big criticism of Canadian theatre would be that texts and styles seem
> to be over-clarified, leaving the audience to do no work at all. That is
> one of the reasons I so rarely attend theatre here, yet when I'm in other
> countries I go to see as much as possible. I'm not certain where to point
> the finger - there are good actors and good and interesting texts, which
> are comparable in quality with those of any other country.
> Incidentally, the French theatre in Montreal does experiment, and is quite
> excellent.
>
> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Alastair M. Wallis Jarvis wrote:
>
> > Stuart!
> >
> > Thanks for telling us what's going on there!
> >
> >         While I think that Lepage is fully aware of the influence of
> > television on an audience, I agree wholeheartedly with your perception of
> > an audience's tendency to demand realism. It certainly is a challenge to
> > find a way of pushing the envelope that does not mean you play to empty
> > houses.
> >
> >         Perhaps a question to throw to everyone on the list would be how
> > the audience's expectation and taste limit the work which is done in
> > Canadian theatre?
> >
> >         Is there a responsability to educate an audience? Can such
> > questions be raised without necessarily being subject to accusations of
> > elitism?
> >