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The Restorative Function of Language in Armand Gatti's Experimental Theatre for the ‘Exclus’1 of Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Dorothy Knowles
Affiliation:
Hon. Research Fellow, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London.

Extract

Armand Gatti is a recognized writer of politically committed plays. Jean-Paul Sartre speaking from the stage of the Théâtre National Populaire (T.N.P.) in Paris after the banning there of Gatti's La Passion du Général Franco saluted him as a leading exponent, along with Brecht, Gorki and Dürrenmatt of the popular theatre of the sixties.

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Copyright
Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1993

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Notes

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