Liliana Alexandrescu (Romania) is a researcher and theatre director. From 1976 to 2001, she was co-editor of the FIRT/SIBMAS Information Bulletin, which appeared in English and French in Amsterdam, where she directed the university theatre group FRI at the University of Amsterdam. In the theoretical field she has worked on modern and post-modern literature and theatre, as well as on contemporary ritual theatre. She has published articles and essays in reviews and books in Romania, amongst which her translation of Eugenio Barba’s The Paper Canoe.
This is an excerpt of the article by Liliana Alexandrescu that was published with the same title in the Romanian journal Dramatica 1/2014, “Eugenio Barba. Celebrating 50 years with Odin Teatret.” Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, pp. 157-182. After two meetings with Eugenio Barba and Odin Teatret’s actors, in 1976 and in 1981, the author visited Odin Teatret’s home and was fascinated by Barba’s and his actors’ working model. In 1985, Alexandrescu attended the ISTA symposium held in Malakoff, France, 20th-21st April 1985. The paper presents the symposium, enriched by original notes taken by the author.
References
Barba, Eugenio. 1990. Théâtre. Solitude, métier, révolte. Présenté par Lluís Masgrau. Traduit de l’italien par Éliane Deschamps-Pria. Montpellier : L’Entretemps.
Barba, Eugenio. 1993. Le canoë de papier. Traité d’anthropologie théâtrale. Traduit par Eliane Deschamps- Pria. Lectoure : Bouf- foneries.
Barba, Eugenio. 2011. Brûler sa maison. Origines d’un metteur en scène. Traduit de l’italien par Eliane Deschamps-Pria. Montpellier: L’Entretemps.
Barba, Eugenio, and Nicola Savarese. 1983. Anatomia del teatro. Un dizionario di antropologia teatrale. A cura di Nicola Savarese. Dall’International School of Theatre Anthropology diretta da Eugenio Barba. Firenze : La Casa Usher.
Barba, Eugenio. 1985. Anatomie de l’acteur. Lectoure: Bouffonneries Contrastes.
Barba, Eugenio. 2008. L’Énergie qui danse. Un dictionnaire d’anthropologie théâtrale. Ilème édition revue et augmentée. Montpellier: L’Entretemps.
Théâtre 71. 1985. Le Maître du regard. Cahier-programme. Malakoff.