KATALOG (ke stažení) - Prague Quadrennial

Pautrefois. Ce personnage est exactement comme cette personne. Et
ces paroles sont celles-ci, en citation."
When presenting his work on theatrical masks, Werner Strub cites
a quotation from a book by Eduardo Sanguineti, Maschere e Choc, which
is devoted to the work of Benno Besson, with whom Werner Straub
collaborated, among others also on a production of Sophočles King
Oedipus, adapted by the samé Eduardo Sanguineti:
„The theatre is a mask. It is reincarnation in the broadest sense of the
word. The actor is created by this transformation, which occurs when
playing a role; he seems to put aside his own every day identity, his own
civis status, to become someone else. Structurally, for him it means
that ,1 am another'. By impersonating a character he creates and defines
it on the stage and thus clearly articulates a previously accepted
and agreed upon alienatiom. A mask, costume, make-up are signs, fraudulent
but transparent, of replacing a person. When Besson choses a mask
it was because he likes to stress this systém of clear falsification upon
which the theatre is based with evident provocativeness and to remind
us of the rituál origins of the word. This is our first paradox, in which
a presented reincarnation, which aims at creating a delusion, makes
itself manifest and at the samé time transforms characteristics of a magie
ceremony into a cultural and playful convention. In a theatrical
reincarnation we cannot separate the aspect of enchantment and the
aspect of overt pretension. And this reincarnation is of course just as
valid for an actor, for a time and a space. It also finds its way into the
text. The here is also elsewhere, the now is also long ago.
This character is exactly the samé as that person. What he is saying is
a direct quotation of his words."
Narozen 1935 v Basileji. Spolupracuje se švýcarskými i zahraničními divadly
jako scénický a kostýmní výtvarník, ale především navrhuje masky.
1970—1985 intenzívně spolupracoval s režisérem Benno Bessonem.
STRUB
Werner
Né en 1935 á Bale. II coopěre comme scénographe et costumier mais
surtout comme créateur des masques avec plusieurs théátres suisses et
étrangers. De 1970 á 1985 il a collaboré intensivement avec le metteur
en scěne Benno Besson.
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