Mirror-like performances - Racine in the light of Daniel Mesguich's staging of 'Andromaque'

Concerning Andromaque, Daniel Mesguich, inside the frame of the illusion bo x of the Italian stage, sets the problem of the mirror effects of the perfo rmance; from the principle of the duplication of a melancholy suffering, wh ich uses a large cheval-glass as its instrument of reflection, to the drama of the repetition of the past and to the very tragedy of the performance, through multiple visual and sound systems, reflections and echoes, doubling s and re-doublings, thus favouring mise en abyme effects.