5/15/2023 0 Comments Another word for repertoireWhen transposed to the marionette and puppet theatre, this notion raises several questions:ġ) In the sense of “works belonging exclusively to a theatre or a company” (A). The Comédie-Française uses the term ‘grand répertoire’ or simply ‘repertoire’ to denote the set of great classical works, whether tragedy or – more often – comedy, which are the glory of this theatre and which were the landmark pieces of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This list constitutes an exact and detailed account of his repertoire. In provincial theatres, a director will never sign up an actor until he has been sent a list of these roles and shows. (C) - Lastly, an artist’s repertoire consists of all the roles he has ever played in all the different shows in which he has performed. – (B) On the other hand, in some theatres, lyric theatres for example, which change their programme on a daily basis, “drawing up the week’s repertoire” denotes the act of setting out a detailed daily schedule of every show that will be put on that week. (A) However, “current repertoire” is understood to denote all the plays performed at least occasionally and plays which have not been performed for a long time and are no longer known by the artists, are said to be “no longer part of the repertoire”. Repertoire: In the context of theatre, this word can have several different meanings which it is helpful to detail.Ī theatre’s repertoire consists of the set of works which it owns, which have not been performed in any other theatre and which it can put on again as and when it wishes. In his Dictionnaire historique et pittoresque du théâtre et des arts qui s’y rattachent (1885), Arthur Pougin identifies five distinct uses : Yet for the actors’ theatre, “repertoire” has taken on far more specific meanings. Repertoire practices in old or traditional puppet theatresĭoes the term repertoire, so commonly used in the context of theatre or music, have meaning for the puppet theatre? In the Encyclopédie mondiale des arts de la marionnette, Brunella Eruli uses the term “repertoire” to simply denote the set of plays performed by puppet theatres in the past, or parts of this set – the “religious repertoire” or the “parody repertoire” in particular.
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