Staging Napoleonic theatre

这一后续项目将提炼和传播在AHRC资助的“拿破仑时代的法国剧院”项目期间获得的知识，从而产生更大的影响。在最初的投标中，我们设想与戏剧从业者一起举办小规模的参与性研究讲习班，以探讨当时戏剧中文本和音乐之间的关系的实际问题。通过排练情节剧中的场景，我们已经证明了看似简单的音乐线索在多个层面上发挥作用--影射地方或人；建立氛围；标记情绪释放的时刻，以及协调演员的动作。后续资金将使我们能够进一步探索这一点，并使我们能够更具创新性地与两所非高等学校合作，公开演出近200年来没有在任何地方上演的戏剧。里士满格鲁吉亚皇家剧院格鲁吉亚皇家剧院是该国最完整的格鲁吉亚剧院，在1788年至1830年期间经常使用。我们被要求合作一场Pixeré宫廷戏剧(新翻译)与当代拿破仑音乐的公开演出。我们将与青年剧院、当地业余戏剧团体和学校一起举办工作坊，并与剧院的艺术总监和2-3名专业演员合作，实现一天的演出。除了重演这部剧的更广泛的积极文化影响外，我们与当地演员的工作将通过培训他们当时的法国表演技巧来增强他们的知识和技能基础，并打开他们对音乐和文本之间关系的敏感。剧院目前没有资金用于翻译，所以我们与他们的合作将提供有价值的录音，用于他们的展览空间和随后的外展活动。波特切斯特城堡与波切斯特的英国遗产组织的合作将使我们能够探索拿破仑战俘表演的戏剧，其中包括从巴黎舞台上雄心勃勃地挑选热门歌曲，以及他们自己的戏剧，包括由21岁的中士Jean Baptiste Louis de Lafontaine于1810年创作的全面情节剧《Roseliska》，他曾在巴黎Thétre des Troubadour担任演员。这部剧在很大程度上借鉴了巴黎壮观的传统，同时解决了一些贴近囚犯内心的主题。如果能够适当地考虑周围环境，进行基于绩效的研究就特别有成效。虽然木制舞台没有幸存下来，但波特切斯特要塞地下室的尺寸和音响效果与1809/10年一样，与演员和音乐家以及EH考古学家一起工作，使我们能够以独特的方式进入战俘戏剧的机械。例如，Roseliska有一个英雄从窗户逃脱的场景--在原地工作将使我们能够探索囚犯利用监狱的建筑对他们有利的可能性，而不是为这个场景建造布景……表演和录制囚犯自己的戏剧将为游客带来监狱的生命，并让他们发现更多关于被拘留者的独创性和创造力。演出还将给波彻斯特带来其他好处，包括提高作为英国遗产的知名度，潜在的游客数量和收入的增加，并将使城堡扩大其学校工作涵盖的主题。为了配合波切斯特和里士满的公开演出，我们将为当地学校举办关于表演情节剧以及文本和音乐之间的关系的工作坊。在这方面，我们将能够借鉴2014年在牛津和考文垂举办类似活动的经验。上演拿破仑剧院将使我们能够接触到新的观众，显著提高原始项目的价值和更广泛的好处，并为与我们的非HEI合作伙伴的进一步合作奠定坚实的基础。

This follow-on project will provide additional impact by distilling and disseminating knowledge acquired during the AHRC-funded "French Theatre of the Napoleonic Era" project. In the original bid, we envisaged small-scale participatory research workshops with theatre practitioners to explore practical issues surrounding the relationship between text and music in theatre of the time. By rehearsing scenes from melodrama we have shown that apparently simple musical cues operated on multiple levels -alluding to places or people; establishing atmosphere; marking moments of emotional release and coordinating the movement of actors. Follow-on funding would allow us to explore this much further and enable us to work more innovatively with 2 non-HEIs to put on public performances of plays not performed anywhere for nearly 200 years.Georgian Theatre Royal, RichmondThe Georgian Theatre Royal is the country's most complete Georgian playhouse, in regular use between 1788 and 1830. We have been asked us collaborate on a public performance of a Pixerécourt play (in new translation) with contemporary Napoleonic music. We will run workshops with the youth theatre, local amateur dramatics groups and schools in conjunction with the Theatre's artistic director and 2-3 professional actors, leading to a 'performance in a day'. In addition to the broader positive cultural impact of restaging this play, our work with local actors will enhance their knowledge and skills base by training them in French acting techniques of the period and opening their sensibilities to the relationship between music and text. The Theatre does not currently have the funds to invest in interpretation and so our work with them will provide valuable recordings to be used in their exhibition space and in subsequent outreach activities.Portchester CastleThe collaboration with English Heritage at Portchester will allow us to explore the plays performed by Napoleonic prisoners of war, which included an ambitious selection of hits from the Paris stage but also their own plays, including a full-scale melodrama, Roseliska, written in 1810 by a 21-year old sergeant, Jean Baptiste Louis de Lafontaine, who had been an actor at the Théâtre des Troubadours in Paris. The play draws heavily on the Parisian tradition of grand spectacle whilst addressing a number of themes close to the prisoners' hearts. Conducting performance-based research is particularly fruitful when surroundings can be properly taken into consideration. Although the wooden staging has not survived, the dimensions and acoustics of the basement of the Keep at Portchester are as they were in 1809/10 and working with actors and musicians alongside EH archaeologists allows us unique access into the mechanics of prisoner-of-war theatricals. Roseliska for instance has a scene where the hero escapes out of a window - working in situ will allow us to explore the possibility that the prisoners used the architecture of the keep to their advantage rather than constructing a set for this scene...Performing and recording the prisoners' own play will bring the Keep to life for visitors and allow them to discover more about the ingenuity and creativity of those detained. The performances will bring other benefits to Portchester, including increased visibility as an English Heritage property, potentially an increase in visitor numbers and income and will allow the Castle to expand the topics covered in its schools work.To coincide with the public performances at Portchester and in Richmond, we will run workshops for local schools on performing melodrama and the relationship between text and music. In this, we will be able to draw on our experience from running similar events in Oxford and Coventry in 2014. Staging Napoleonic theatre will allow us to reach new audiences, significantly enhance the value and wider benefits of the original project and create a firm basis for further collaboration with our non HEI partners.