Since antiquity, the architecture of the Theater has taken various forms and meanings, ranging from urban monuments to the erasure of any visible structure, in itinerant and ephemeral street performance.
Theater maintains a complex and paradoxical relationship with architecture. Because theater is also a discipline of spatial creation, and it is through scenic means that theater produces places and symbols. The scenic means are light/darkness, sound, actors, texts and scenery.
At the same time the creation of the theatrical and scenic space takes place in a real objective and material space: architecture or the city. Thus the architecture of the theater is transformed into an infrastructure generating multiple and moving spaces: the stage spaces. The architectural space can be secondary or invisible, a simple technical support (black box, technical ceiling, acoustics, etc.) or present as part of the scenography. The time of theater is contradictory to that of architecture. The former is ephemeral, moving, fluctuating, discontinuous, while the latter is stable over the long term.
In this studio we will base our research on a local contemporary theater experience: Zoukak Theatre Company. Thus the study will be anchored in reality and will respond to concrete needs.
“Artists, you who make theater
In big houses, under artificial suns,
In front of silent crowds, occasionally seek out
That theatre which is played out in the street,
Everyday theatre, multiple, obscure,
But so alive, terrestrial, nourished by social life,
And which is played in the street,”
B.Brecht