Title: The History of Staging in France since the End of the 19th Century
Lecturer: Laurent Gutmann (Dean of the National Graduate School of Arts and Technical Theater and a Stage Director)
Chairperson: Ivan Ruvidic (Research Fellow, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University)
Date: 1:30 pm, October 31st, 2019 (Thursday)
Venue: Room 3102, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
The history of theater in France as in the rest of Europe has been marked since the end of the 19th century by the appearance of the figure of the stage director. This appearance has deeply transformed western drama, its aesthetics, its repertoire, its organization of work.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Laurent Gutmann is Dean of the ENSATT (National Graduate School of Arts and Technical Theater) and a stage director. Graduated from Challiot drama school, he studied under the French drama master Antoine Vitez. He served as an assistant to Jean-Pierre Vincent, a famous French classical theatre director. He also directed the Theatre des Amandiers, France. In 2002, he won the “Villa Medici” Art Award from the French Academy. He directed many works from various repertoires, including Calderon de la Barca’s “Life is a Dream”, Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King”, Bernard-Marie Koltes’s “Return to the Desert”, Jean Genet’s “Splendid’s” and many others works.
