My thoughts about the theater

"My thoughts about the theater" are almost copyright. It conveys the very essence of these texts: projects, considerations, sentences of absolutely personal nature ... As a playwright, Paul Claudel was never indifferent to the embodiment of his plays: he liked to intervene in the process and, sometimes bringing directors to white, to waste advice and instructions. He was interested in technical issues, invented staging plans, painted experiments in the field of diction, music, gesture in his imagination ... He dreamed about some, he realized others. He composed ballets, pantomims, and after creating a "satin shoe"-freed to some extent from his own dramatic creativity-such plays, each of which is" experiment ":" Book of Christopher Columbus", Jeanne d"Arc on a fire " , A "feast of wisdom" ... He would need a "total performance" in which dance, music, cinema ... would support poetry.
From its correspondence, articles, reports, etc. It was easily made to make a collection, the editorial office of Jacques Petit and Jean-Pierre Kempa texts are built in a chronological sequence, which reflects the addictions and interests of Claudel. A theater figure or, rather, a poet who dreams of the capabilities of the theater appears before us