Témoignage Du passé au présent : insuffler de la vie à la performance contemporaine avec un jeu historique d’acteur

This testimony describes the process of creating mini-melodramas for performance in a programme mixing historical and contemporary materials and techniques. A single text, The Poison Tree by William Blake, was experimented with as a declamation and as melodrama. By creating two versions of the latter, using different pieces of music, the author demonstrates that the intention and imagination of the performer determines the affective expression of the gestures.