Rhapsody For the Theatre by Alain Badiou

Author:Alain Badiou
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2013-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

LXXXII

Here I propose my second reform, which is so wideranging that it is a pleasure to see. It can be summed up as follows: our presence in the theatre halls must become obligatory.

LXXXIII

In order to realize this important reform of public morals, we must find support in our national traditions of Jacobinism. I have sufficiently demonstrated the necessary link between theatre and the State for this support to lose all its apparent arbitrariness.

We would obviously begin with the Comédie-Française, which is a royal institution that defies time. It would first of all be charged with establishing an affiliate in every Prefecture, a departmental French Theatre, endowed with adequate resources, a permanent cast, an administrator appointed by the political power, and so forth.

Aside from its activity in the Great Theatre of the Prefecture (vast and luxurious, offering to all the golds and velvets of tradition), each departmental theatre would be responsible for organizing, in the towns of some importance (let’s say, starting at 3,000 inhabitants), at least four representations per year, three plays from the repertoire and one new creation.

It is understood that special buses – the service of theatrical gathering – would crisscross through the neighbouring villages so as to bring their population into town when the departmental theatre is in season.

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