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1983 » Switzerland » Scénická a kostýmní tvorba národní expozice
| Curator: | Casar Menz |
Švýcarsko
THEATRE POPULAIRE ROMAND On tour: The popular Swiss French-language theatre (T.P.R.J has been traveling with its productions from towns to villages, and from the country-side to suburbs for more than twenty years. It continually crosses the language boundries within Switzerland and plays in the French language, for French-speaking, as well as for German-speaking Swiss and also for the inhabitants of the Ticino canton. Its every-day routine begins with the unloading of lorries which carry everything needed for a performance and with the technical and scenographic arrangement of the auditorium, which only very rarely is an actual theatre. The culmination of this routine are the 120 days in the year when the ensemble plays for audiences who in the majority of cases have never yet encountered the daring ideas of contemporary theatre. At home: The twenty six persons who form the permanent ensemble of the T.P.R. (these initials are very well-known through-out the country; while a number of other theatres exist, there are very few real theatrical ensembles), live in the small working-class town of Chaux-de-Fonds which lies 1000 m above sea level in the mountains of the Jura. They develop their art in this remote place — including further education, experimenting and creative work. This is no laboratory, but rather a living theatre, in constant contact with the people of the region. In the period 1975—1982 the one and only stage designer of the ensemble, Gilles Lambert, has been analysing the specific conditions which this theatre encounters on tour, has been arranging a scenic environment for all performances and has constantly been improving their technical quality. Thus his very original work has been developing for years in close affinity with the needs of the T.P.R. and its endeavours to seek an ever closer relationship between the actor and the audience. His work has also been instrumental to the fact that the theatre has recently acquired the use of the Beau-Site building. Now the dream of all constantly traveling T.P.R. members to settle into their own building, to simplify the organization of tours, will finally come true in 1983 when the old Beau-Site building will be re-open after adaptations.
Architecture of Exhibition: Adescap de Chaux-de-Fonds