caa a22 4500 388109734 CHVBK 20180307125350.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0307883300020770 doi S0307883300020770 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0307883300020770 Shepherd-Barr Kirsten Kirsten Shepherd-Barr is Assistant Professor of English, North Carolina State University ‘Mise en Scent': The Théâtre d'Art's Cantique des cantiques and the Use of Smell as a Theatrical Device [Elektronische Daten] [Kirsten Shepherd-Barr] In December 1891, an adaptation by Paul-Napoléon Roinard of the Old Testament text of the Cantique des cantiques (Song of Songs) of Solomon was performed at the recently created Théâtre d'Art, expressly to present a new idea of theatre as total art by engaging the visual, aural, and olfactory senses of the audience. One of the few theatre historians who has mentioned this remarkable endeavour notes that in it,‘music, words, colour, even perfume, were to be harmonized; all the senses were to be involved, simultaneously, in the one overwhelming experience'. Roinard's synaesthetic experiment drew on a range of sources including Baudelaire, Wagner and Rimbaud, and, most strikingly, featured scents pumped into the auditorium on cue by young symbolist poets stationed in the far edges of the proscenium and in the balcony and using hand-held vaporizers. According to the outline Roinard provided in the programme, nine scents were used: frankincense, white violets, hyacinth, lilies, acacia, lily of the valley, syringa, orange blossom, and jasmine. Each of these odours had corresponding orchestrations of speech (specific vowel sounds), tones (original music composed by Mme Flamen de Labrély), and colours. Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1999 Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/2(1999), 152-159 0307-8833 24:2<152 1999 24 TRI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300020770 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300020770 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Shepherd-Barr Kirsten Kirsten Shepherd-Barr is Assistant Professor of English, North Carolina State University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/2(1999), 152-159 0307-8833 24:2<152 1999 24 TRI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge