History, Theatre and Politics

Gérard Noiriel, a historian of the world of workers and immigrants, uses the stage here as a place for autonomous political expression. "To restore the links between art, science and civic action, a new space common to everyone must be reinvented for reflection and action. It will have to be outside the normalised institutional stakes and within reach of all citizens, so as to escape the ruinous alternative the theatre is usually enclosed in, i.e. the State or commercial considerations."