Setting in scene

The put in scene is according to the definition of André Antoine (regarded in France as the first Director) “art to draw up on the boards the action and the characters imagined by the dramatic author”. It is the whole of all the relative tendencies to the action, the isolated or concerted movements actors, to the incidents which must occur around them, with the pieces of furniture, additional objects, etc

The setting in scene, regulating the least details, causes to ensure the play of each actor and the general harmony of the execution. One arrives at this result only at the price of much of skill and experiment, by many repetitions and the mutual confidence which to the actors the practice gives to play together. However, if the trade of director dates from the beginning of the 20th century, the organization of a setting in theatrical scene appeared as of the end of the 18th century, when there was not any more a privileged spectator sat directly on the scene.

Previously, the Acteur S were to interpret their role according to established conventions. Each artist individually worked out his gestural and its declamation, it provided itself the costume of its character, and the movements of scene were reduced to bare essential. It is with the idea to unify the style of a spectacle, in the play of the actors, the costumes and the space of the decorations, that the Dramaturge S and theater directors started to work out settings in scene.

Louis Becq de Fouquières published, in 1884, the first theoretical work on the subject: '' The Art of the setting in scene: Test of theatrical esthetics ''.

By extension, a put in scene is the preparation of events coordinated before their effective achievement.

In the broad sense, one can speak about setting in scene to underline the aspect of an event which is not spontaneous.

See too

List of directors
Louis Becq de Fouquières
Molière of the director
Dominique Price of the setting in scene
Put in scene of the political power

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