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TABLEAU D UNE EXECUTION

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Tableau d'une exécution questionne les relations de l'artiste avec le pouvoir politique. La république de Venise commande à Galactia, femme peintre renommée, un tableau commémorant la bataille de Lépante. Au lieu de la gloire de la Sérénissime, elle choisit de peindre la guerre telle qu'elle est : un massacre. Le doge fait emprisonner Galactia mais le tableau divise l'aristocratie. Le clan des amateurs d'art l'emporte : le chef-d'oeuvre sera exposé.Les Possibilités : 10 saynètes mettent en scène un univers cataclysmique où toute notion de bien et de mal a disparu. Barker interroge le monde de l'après-Auschwitz et l'" authentique angoisse morale qui en résulte. Le spectateur, placé face à lui-même, ne se voit dicter aucune réponse.

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Published June 19, 1998

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Howard Barker

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Howard Barker is an English playwright. His plays have been produced at the Royal Court, the RSC and the National Theatre, throughout Europe and the USA and by his own company, The Wrestling School. He is best known as the exponent of the Theatre of Catastrophe. He is a theatre theorist, a poet and a painter. His work has been the subject of a number of book-length studies and academic conferences.

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