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From Novel to Theatre: Contemporary Adaptations of Narrative to the French Stage

1981; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 33; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3206769

1086-332X

Judith G. Miller,

Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

The kind of explosion created by [Godard's] long poem, Pierrot le fou [1965] blasted a complete and terrifying chasm between the theatre that was still being produced and what was happening in literature [the New Novel, Tel Quell, in painting, in jazz, and in the beginnings of a new kind of popular music. There was a gap in sensitivity between the theatre as it was then and what I really liked in the arts and in life. That's why I said to myself: We're going to do theatre but we won't do theatre-theatre, we won't stage classical plays: we'll try to write our own texts. Jo Lavaudant, director of the National Dramatic Center of the Alps, Grenoble, France1