Présentation de la mise en scène SEULE – Paroles de soldates en Iraq de Helen Benedict (2009)

Abstract

Feedback on the work of staging an American theatrical text on the contemporary French scene : The Lonely Soldier Monologues (Women at War in Iraq) written by Helen Benedict in 2009, and translated into French by translators from Maison Antoine Vitez in 2018. The play is directed by Dinah Pedarros at the Regional Conservatory in Nice in June 2024 and as part of a PhD project supervised by Emeline Jouve (professor of American literature and culture, specialist in US theater at the University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès) and Christophe Triau (professor of theatrical aesthetics at the University of Paris Nanterre and playwright), they are both members of the ANR ACTiF (American Contemporary Theater in France) program.

Keywords

• American theatre
• staging
• Emeline Jouve
• otherness
• Maison Antoine Vitez
• dramaturgy