INFLUENCES OF THE ORIENT IN THE EUROPEAN THEATRE.

Without ever depleting its abundance of image, the Orient's world represented a clear and refreshing spring, a definitive experience, beneficial for the artists from European zone. From the cultural view - but not only, the theatre had only gains from the multi-facets dialogue with the Hindu, Arabian or Egyptian traditions. The results were to be seen in directing, in theatrical pedagogy, because the direct or indirect interaction with the Levant had been refreshing the visions of scene's people, it made possible approaching and discovery of the tangential points. The opinions and conceptions of some personalities as Ariane Mnouchkine, Eugenio Barba or Peter Brook have interested us in the analyze of the process by which Oriental elements are discovered, adopted and inserted into the Occidental scene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]