Charlène Deharbe and Hervé Guay (eds.), Faire théâtre contemporain des textes littéraires (XVIe-XIXe siècles). Regards croisés sur les pratiques au Québec et en Europe, Leiden, Brill, 2025.
Classics from prior centuries continue to fascinate theatre artists. They never stop thinking of ways to stage these works to reach actual audiences. By referring, in the title of our book, to French director Antoine Vitez’s famous quote “make theatre with everything”, we want to point out the persistence of a problematic causing artists to not only take into account the evolution of dramatic forms, but also the broader cultural regime, digital for the 21st Century, within which these transpositions take place. The studies gathered in this volume bring a fresh perspective to the contemporary performing practices in Quebec and in Europe using literary texts, and illuminate many theoretical and methodological issues in the process.
