Violence, Speech, and Reality: The Case of <i>Cinq Visages pour Camille Brunelle</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article focuses on the connection between violence, obscenity, language, and character in contemporary Quebec theatre and how it might help us redefine the tension between theatre and reality, questioning anew oppositions such as artifice/authenticity or theatricality/performativity. Using Guillaume Corbeil’s Cinq visages pour Camille Brunelle, this article proposes that even if contemporary playwrights use a resemblance with reality (resemblance of language, discourse, ideas, or characters), the ‘stage’ should not try to refer to the ‘real world.’ I argue that the question of reality and post-reality is in need of a new definition. Theatre could be redefined as a new space, acting as a mediator between the real and the fictional, making use of both at the same time. Recent plays in Quebec have seen a decrease in physical violence in favour of violent speech, and this undoes the binary that associates the real with action and violence and speech with artifice. When characters use violent speech, they are perpetually caught between transparency and opacity, authenticity and artifice.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".