Sciences En Scene
Sciences En Scene
Liliane Campos
At the dawn of the 21st century, British theater finds a new source of inspiration in science. From thermodynamics to quantum mechanics, from chaos mathematics to neurology, the exact sciences come onto the scene, in works as diverse as those of playwrights Tom Stoppard, Caryl Churchill and Sarah Kane, or the companies On Theater and Complicite. This dialogue with the laboratory, which oscillates between the imitation of a rational model and the criticism of a place of power, always testifies to a fascination with the scientific imagination of our time. Because it is above all a poetic role that scientific discourse plays in this theater. From theme, science becomes language, providing metaphors and narrative structures to uncertain dramaturgies, characterized by a postmodern aesthetic of multiple truth and the opening of meaning. Through these different ways of bringing science into play, contemporary artists offer a renewal of the dramatic and scenic languages.
Available
2012
978-2-7535-2114-8
Study
Presses Universitaires de Rennes
Liliane Campos is a lecturer in English and theater studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University. Her research focuses on the relationships between contemporary literature and science. She is the author of “The Dialogue of Art and Science in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia” (2011), and directed a special issue of Alternatives Théâtrales entitled “Côté sciences” (2009) and co-directed, with Julie Vatain, “Lectures de Tom Stoppard Arcadia” (2011).