An Individual in Company: Quatre quatuors pour un week-end

Abstract

Following a similar structure as Chapter 4, the chapter begins with a textual consideration of how Gao complicates subjective identity in a seemingly more traditionally structured play. The chapter goes on to consider the political ramifications of Gao writing and producing his work at the Comédie Française, asking how a playwright who is so committedly against political identification works within such a structure. The chapter, again, looks at how Gao’s play creates a different aesthetic structure that demands a careful approach in production.