La llum del teatre

Abstract

<p>lt is a fact that a large number of directors still feel enthusiastic about lights and use them with great pleasure. Lights and their function in theatre are at crossing where opposite ways both converge and come apart. Here we would like to refer to that confrontation.</p> <p>We have not wanted to address to directors, unquestionable authorities on every kind of discourse upon theatre, but the experts in illumination, from whom we do not hear very often. It was a question of finding with them their own place in the world of theatre, of finding where the demand of either the director or the theatrical designer finishes and where their own originality as artists and of setting their ties with the technique and its continuous changes begins. We have wanted to give rise, for the first time, to a controversy on lights with those people who take care of it.</p> <p>This dossier implies rather raising again the question of lights than studying them. In order to approach better this problem, we have interviewed Pierre Savron, André Diot and Patrice Trottier, all of them experts in illumination, who belong to different historical generations, They, in collaboration with Vilar, Chéreau and Mesguisch, have managed to find a new way of using lights and their functioning inside the theatrical image. It is not a question of making a stock of styles, but of giving rise to an argument where the radicalism of each process generates an implicit controversy.</p>