ART OR AMUSEMENT? THE COMEDIES OF YASMINA REZA BEYOND THE LABELS
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Jun 13, 2024
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boulevard theatre, comedy, avant-garde theatre, contemporary drama, Yasmina Reza, “Art”
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Yasmina Reza (1959) is one of the most important and most staged contemporary playwrights. Her plays, translated into more that 35 languages, are produced in the most famous theatres worldwide. The object of analysis of this paper is “Art” (1994), the most performed French play in the World, right after Molière’s plays. Paradoxically, the very popularity and success of the play has for long been the reason for the French theatre critique considering it an entertainment theatre or boulevard theatre. Today, however, “Art” and Reza’s approach to playwriting are subjects of a number of theatrical analyses and re-readings that recognize their multi-layered qualities and formal innovation, seeing them as a continuation of the avant-garde theatre. This paper focuses on the deconstruction of the traditional dramatic categories, as well as on undermining the division between “amusement” and “art”, which are in the hearth of this “comedy” that impresses with its complex and refined dramatic construction, with the universality and the
seriousness of the topics that it treats under the veil of lightness.
seriousness of the topics that it treats under the veil of lightness.
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Angelovska, Despina. 2024. “ART OR AMUSEMENT? THE COMEDIES OF YASMINA REZA BEYOND THE LABELS”. Journal of Contemporary Philology 7 (1), 85–100. https://doi.org/10.37834/JCP2471085a.
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Guénon, D. (2005). Avez-vous lu Reza? Une invitation philosophique. Paris: Albin Michel.
Jaccomard, H. (2013). Les fruits de la passion. Le théâtre de Yasmina Reza. Berne: Peter Lang.
Pavis, P. (2004). L'analyse des textes dramatiques, de Sarraute à Pommerat. Paris: Armand Colin.
Proguidis L. (2001). Entretien avec Yasmina Reza. L'Atelier du Roman, 31:139–156.
Reza, Y. (1998). Théâtre. Paris: Albin Michel.
Reza, Y. (2001). Le hasard, le rire. Entretien avec Lakis Proguidis. L’Atélier du roman, mars 2001.
Schneider, R. (1998). Yasmina Reza in a major key. American Theatre. New York Vol. 15, N° 9, (Nov 1998): 12–15.
Tournier, P. (2000). Yasmina Reza. VSD, 9-15/11/2000.
Ubersfeld, A. (2004). La parole solitaire. Jeu, (110): 56–66.
Bouquet, V. (2023) James Brown mettait des bigoudis : les sourires en coin de Yasmina Reza. Sceneweb, 21 септември 2023. Достапно на: https://sceneweb.fr/james-brown-mettait-des-bigoudis-de-yasmina-reza/ [Пристапено на: 10 март 2023]
Morley, S. (1996). But is it art? The Spectator, 26 октомври 1996. Достапно на: https://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/26th-october-1996/64/theatre [Пристапено на: 10 март 2023]
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