《緞子鞋》是詩人、劇作家、外交官克羅岱爾畢生的代表作，分四幕五十二景，演出總長達十一個小時，為現代戲劇難得一見的皇皇鉅著。維德志從克羅岱爾的自傳觀點切入解讀本劇，凸顯對白的戲劇化╱嘉年華化層面，使之貫穿全場，演出的三大主軸──戲劇化／嘉年華、政經宗教以及自傳／情欲遂得以系統化地展現，以形塑戲劇性對照先驗性的表演主論述。礙於《緞子鞋》編劇和表演體制龐大，難以在有限的篇幅中盡述，本文僅分析第一幕演出，藉以釐清其表演脈絡和思緒。

Le Soulier de satin (The Satin Slipper, 1924), divided into four acts and 52 scenes, is the culminating work of French poet, dramatist and diplomat Paul Claudel. Eleven hours are needed to perform the whole work, whose monumental scope has rarely been seen in Western drama. Adopting a biographical point of view, Antoine Vitez emphasizes the theatricalization/ carnivalization aspect of the play, so that the three axes of the production—theatricalization/ carnivalization, politics/economy/religion, and autobiography/desires—can be systematically revealed in order to highlight its metadiscourse of theatricalization vs. transcendence. Due to the tremendous dimension of the Satin Slipper, this paper analyzes only the first act in order to clarify the thread of thought of the mise en scène.