Troupes d'arrondissement: Sung Entertainment in the French Provinces, 1824-1864

1824年，法国被系统化地划分为戏剧区，没有常驻剧院公司的城镇被巡回演出的剧团访问，他们表演了一系列歌剧和歌舞杂耍的剧目。这个项目将考虑这些剧团的美学和制度实践，作为从1824年到1864年放松剧院管制期间围绕娱乐的更大的文化和社会问题的窗口。我将探讨关于音乐剧目适应当地情况的问题；高级和低级艺术形式之间的紧张关系；表演者在法国的流动；代理女演员和女经理，反之亦然。

In the 1824 systematized division of France into theatrical arrondisements, towns deprived of a resident theatre company were visited by travelling troupes performing a range of repetoire from opera and vaudeville. This project will consider the aesthetic and institutional practices of these troupes as windows onto larger cultural and social questions surrounding entertainment from 1824 until the deregulation of theatres (1864). I will explore questions about the adaptation of musical repetoire to locall conditions; tensions between high and low art forms; movement of performers through France; the agency of female performers and managers, and vice versa.