... political and artistic interpretations, is testament firstly to the unique capacity of theatre in straddling these realms, and secondly the practical difficulties of representing French anarchism theatrically in Belle Epoque Paris, and so Reg Carr concludes that Les Mauvais Bergers was "inevitably misunderstood by many of his contemporaries who did not appreciate Mirbeau's [anarchistic] position"14. Whilst the French anarchist ... Emilio Settimelli's Passatism. In this short play Settimelli explores the notion that to participate in culture is fundamentally an act of performing, and th...

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