Moira Day. Staging W. H. Fuller's H.M.S. Parliament
Abstract
While its wit, music, and structural tightness make H.M.S. Parliament one of the most appealing of Canada nineteenth-century plays, a variety of other factors also make it one of the most challenging to revive. Aside from the problem of the operetta's diminished topicality as a political satire, the modern director also must cope with serious discrepancies between the Fuller text and the original Pinafore score. In this article, the director of the 1983 University of Toronto production discusses both the appeal and the problems of producing the operetta today. Tandis que les traits d'ésprit, la musique et l'étroitresse du format de la pièce H.M.S. Parliament font-elle l'une des pièces la plus émouvante des pièces canadiennes du dix-neuvième siècle, c'est la variété des autre éléments qui la fait l'une des pièces la plus difficile à renaitre. A part du problème que l'opérette avait diminué son actualité comme satire politique, le mettre en scène de nos jours doit aussi faire face aux grandes différences entre le texte de Fuller et la partition originale de Pinafore. Cette article par le mettre en scène de la réalisation de H.M.S. Parliament, pendant l'année 1983 à Universite de Toronto trait le charme et aussi les déscaccords qui arrivent aujourd'hui dans la réalisation de l'opérette.Downloads
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