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# Patrice Pavis

(1946)   Writer

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Patrice Pavis is a writer.

## Quick Facts About Patrice Pavis

Born November 30, 1946

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## About Patrice Pavis

British academic... \| Patrice Pavis was Professor for Theatre Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England (UK), where he retired at the end of the academic year 2015/16. He has written extensively about performance, focusing his study and research mainly in semiology and interculturalism in theatre. He was a

##  Quotes by Patrice Pavis

> [ Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond \[character\] and the psychological approach in search… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrice-pavis/avant-garde-theatre-with-its-distrust-of-the-individual-that/)

Patrice Pavis

[Approach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/approach/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c22/patrice-pavis-72351_approach_avant-garde-theatre-with-its-distrust-of_59690.jpg)

> [New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrice-pavis/new-dramatic-writing-has-banished-conversational-dialogue-from-the/)

Patrice Pavis

[Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ab/patrice-pavis-72351_communication_new-dramatic-writing-has-banished-conver_85301.jpg)

> [Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrice-pavis/postmodern-theatre-seems-unwilling-to-listen-to-talk-about-textual-or/)

Patrice Pavis

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ea/patrice-pavis-72351_available_postmodern-theatre-seems-unwilling-to-li_1351510.jpg)

> [More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrice-pavis/more-than-one-branch-of-the-avant-garde-claiming-to-break-with-the/)

Patrice Pavis

[Artist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/)

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