the street of crocodiles and other stories pdf

Ce spectacle illustre la grande flexibilité sémiotique du langage scénique de la compagnie, dans lequel les objets sont mis en valeur à la fois comme présence matérielle et comme métaphores transformables à l’infini. Cette étude porte sur la métamorphose des choses dans une création inspirée par les nouvelles de Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles (1992). La compagnie Théâtre de Complicité est aujourd’hui mondialement connue pour son “théâtre physique”, qui explore inlassablement le potentiel expressif des corps et des objets sur scène. This original scenic language is seen as part of a postdramatic resistance to overarching narratives, and is examined in the context of the company’s more recent work and their ongoing search for collective connections to the past. In a dynamic exploration of the process of memory, objects are used as the focus for a living materialization of the past, which is strongly contrasted with images of reified humanity in the play’s evocation of the Second World War and the Holocaust, and with the subsequent reification of history into fixed narrative forms. This example is used to illustrate the semiotic flexibility of Complicite’s scenic language, in which objects are highlighted both as material presence and as metaphors subject to constant transformation. This study focuses on the constant metamorphosis of things in a devised piece adapted from Bruno Schulz’s stories, The Street of Crocodiles (1992). In recent years the Theatre de Complicite has become internationally famous for its exploration of the expressive powers of bodies and things on stage.

The street of crocodiles and other stories pdf