Cycnos | Numéros | Volume 18.1 - Le théâtre britannique au tournant du millénaire

Résumé :

The anxiety about the turn of a millennium loaded with symbolism seems exasperated when time and its theatrical representations flow evenly. The aesthetic cristallisation of everyone’s desires and frustrations justifies the present attempt at examining the passage of time in a national contemporary playwriting asserting its interest for social and individual questions. The present analysis points at the signs of modification and continuity in contemporary Scotland, a nation confronted to autonomy and the transformation of its society in a context of universality, and marked by the emergence of the cultural field. The preliminary examination of David Greig’s Victoria, influenced by John Mc Grath’s The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil allows the skteching out of the specific marks of playwriting in Scotland today in the emerging artistic discourse of a score of young playwrights, inviting the world to acknowledge the theatre of a nation.

Date de publication : 2008-09-19