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Reviving and Revising the Past: The Search for Present Meaning in Michel Marc Bouchard's Lilies, or the Revival of a Romantic Drama
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This essay examines the structural and representational strategies employed by Michel Marc Bouchard in Lilies, or the Revival of a Romantic Drama to effect a transformation of the traditional images of homosexuality in the contemporary theatre. At the centre of the play is a love affair between two young men in the rural and oppressive environment of Roberval in 1912; a complex metatheatrical structure, incorporating numerous mises en abyme surrounds this nucleus and facilitates an exploration of problems which relate directly and indirectly to its expression of adolescent passion. Within this structure, Bouchard, like his characters, makes use of theatrical revival as a narrative technique in order to reconstruct present meaning out of the past. Bouchard shows that the theatre can arrive at the truth while remaining an artifice, and through its revival and revision of the past can create an alternative theatrical representation of homosexuality.
Title: Reviving and Revising the Past: The Search for Present Meaning in Michel Marc Bouchard's Lilies, or the Revival of a Romantic Drama
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This essay examines the structural and representational strategies employed by Michel Marc Bouchard in Lilies, or the Revival of a Romantic Drama to effect a transformation of the traditional images of homosexuality in the contemporary theatre.
At the centre of the play is a love affair between two young men in the rural and oppressive environment of Roberval in 1912; a complex metatheatrical structure, incorporating numerous mises en abyme surrounds this nucleus and facilitates an exploration of problems which relate directly and indirectly to its expression of adolescent passion.
Within this structure, Bouchard, like his characters, makes use of theatrical revival as a narrative technique in order to reconstruct present meaning out of the past.
Bouchard shows that the theatre can arrive at the truth while remaining an artifice, and through its revival and revision of the past can create an alternative theatrical representation of homosexuality.
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