On Five Productions of Goldoni’s The Holiday Trilogy on Contemporary French Stage

• Main Authors: LIU, WAN-YI, 劉宛頤
• Other Authors: Lilly, Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pqbjcu

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 戲劇學系碩(博)士班 === 106 === 　　La trilogie de la villégiature (The Holiday Trilogy, 1761), composed respectively of three plays La Manie de la villégiature (Off to the country), Les Aventures de la villégiature (Adventures in the country) and Le Retour de la villégiature (Back from the country), is written by Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni. 　　Giorgio Strehler, the director of Italy, reduced the three works to a single show which played in Italian, Austrian and French versions. The abridged version influences the next generation the way to see Goldoni’s works. In 21 century, Jean-Louis Benoît, Alain Françon, Carlotta Clerici and Thomas Quillardet successively adapted and staged the trilogy. These five productions differ from each other in terms of translation, aesthetic perspective, interpretation and directing style. Strehler approached the issue on the entire society faced with the decline of an ancient regime. Through historical point of view, Srehler’s masterpiece conveyed an ordinary life in realistic acting, theatrical directing, and poetic interpretation which could be linked to the French Revolution in 1789. With the young generation of the Comédie-Française, Françon remade the trilogy with present translation which is not only loyal to the author but also reflects the crisis nowadays. As to Benoît’s vulgar work, he pointed out the collectivity in a physical way to expand the research of Goldoni. Unlike previous ones, Clerici and Quillardet attempted to modernize the classic text by setting the background in the early 20th century and putting the new and old elements together on stage. The former explored the meaning of voyage with feminine vision and the latter collaged two timelines to satirize the pursuit of lost generation in the superficial society. 　　The thesis aims to analyze how the directors illustrate the great variety of Venetian society and bring these holidaymakers to the actuality. Their experimental efforts make Goldoni revival in the contemporary French stage.