As the play opens, an old woman who is Camille in her old age, which is referred to as the Current Camille, greets us. She begins to tell a story beginning when she was at the age of 17 and moving right up to where she is admitted into an insane asylum. Along the way Camille reveals to the audience; the happiness, hardships, betrayal, and emptiness that she goes through during her life. In this play, there are many artistic influences presented. Three that stood out were from Antonin Artaud, The Bread and Puppet Theatre, and Bertolt Brecht. Artuad's purpose was to create a theatre that shared and involved the audience's reactions and emotions. This is shown during Camille's struggle with her love affair with Rodin and how it transforms into a bitter illusion of betrayal and insanity. Artaud wanted to connect mind, body, and spirit. Jeanine Thompson is doing just that with Camille's sculptors. Her mind creates these sculptors, which evoke

s a spirit. Bread and Puppet Theatre is seen with Camille's loss of spirit. She displays this when she destroys most of her work. Her hands into the sculptures transformed her spirit. She was so afraid of her art being stolen or commercialized she had lost her spirit. Her sculptures had life and movement in them, which displays the Puppet part of this theatre. Had her art told a story by the way she positioned the body parts, such as the seen where she keeps going behind Rodin's back and adjusting the model. She wants the model a certain way with her arms in to relate a feeling of tension, which is part of the conventions of the Bread and Puppet Theatre. Finally see a lot of Brecht's influence. Just as he wrote the play of Galileo to relate to us the hardships Galileo went through, Thompson is also doing this by telling the life of Camille Claudel, just as Brecht told the story of Galileo. In this paper I will describe how Thompson uses character, theme, acting, and set to relay the emotions and feelings of Camille to the audience.

Finally, the set is an equally important theatrical convention. The set was a box set. The audience could not see any lighting fixtures. There was a proscenium arch. The background had a large window on the left which change it's lighting to compliment Camille's emotions and the Sculptor Camille up on a scaffold, which was also a symbol of Camille's inside feelings. On the sides, there were stone-like structures and to the far right there is a small rectangular wooden platform with a door behind it and a rocking chair where the Current or Old Age Camille sat and told her story. Thus, we are given a window to view the inside of Camille's world. The set helped us view Camille's emotions such as the window and Sculptor Camille. Also the props on the stage such as the young model, which Rodin and Camille constantly fight over to change her position. These help relate Camille's artwork, such as the scene with the model posing. She wanted to show the tension in the girl, while Rodin wanted the model to be a display of only beauty. This part of the set deeply clues the audience in on the great difference of Rodin and Camille and shows that Rodin is more shallow, while Camille is a deeply and emotionally involved with her work and shows her feelings through the sculptures.

Camille's character is given way

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