Le drame tragique entre grotesque et profane dans Barrabas de Michel de Ghelderode

The present article handles, in the form of exploration, grotesque processes in the particularuniverse of the theater. For this study, we chose to concern the analysis the room (part, play)Barrabas de Michel de Ghelderode who is one of the biggest Belgian playwrights of the XXthcentury and whose world aura in the dramaturgic writing is indisputable. His (her,its) rich productionholds(likes) the originality of its dramatic art which distinguishes him(it) from all the types(chaps) oftheater known in France at that time.Although joining the theater of cruelty, the room(part,play) Barrabas is characterized by ablack humor (scene(stage) of farce parodying the torture of the ordeal(Calvary) imposed on thecrucified Christ) and stuffed by grotesque one omnipresent (festive scenes(stages) in the square inparallel in the scene(stage) of the crucifixion, the laughter and the grotesque body, the vocabulary ofthe obscenities and the swearwords). An in-depth reconfiguration of the dramatic compositioncharacterized by the métathéâtre and the grotesque, that is the coeducation(mixing) of registers: thesacred and the layman, the sublime and grotesque, autoreferentiality and ironic distance, even thetheater in the theater, according to Antonine Artaud the theater and its double(copy).