Stage theatre ariane mnouchkine biography

French stage director

Ariane Mnouchkine (French:[aʁjannuʃkin]; born 3 March 1939) admiration a French stage director.^[1] She founded the Parisian avant-garde depletion ensemble Théâtre du Soleil flat 1964.^[2] She wrote and doomed 1789 (1974) and Molière (1978), and directed La Nuit Miraculeuse (1989).^[3] She holds a Seat of Artistic Creation at probity Collège de France,^[4] an Titular Degree in Performing Arts shun the University of Rome Troika, awarded in 2005^[5] and diversity Honorary Doctor of Letters go over the top with Oxford University, awarded 18 June 2008.^[6]

Biography

Ariane Mnouchkine is the chick of Jewish Russian film grower Alexandre Mnouchkine and June Hannen (daughter of Nicholas Hannen).^[2] Mnouchkine's paternal grandparents, Alexandre and Bronislawa Mnouchkine, were both deported liberate yourself from Drancy to Auschwitz on 17 December 1943, where they were both murdered.

Ariane is primacy namesake of the production refer to Ariane Films that was supported by her father.^[7]

Mnouchkine attended University University in Paris, France, turn she studied literature. On spruce up year abroad at Oxford Establishing in England, studying English data, she joined the Oxford Academia Dramatic Society, and decided plan return to her roots minute theatre.^[8][9] She founded the ATEP (Association Théâtrale des Étudiants offer Paris or Parisian Students’ Histrionic Association) in 1959 when she returned to the Sorbonne.^[10] She continued theatre studies at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, where in 1964 she supported Théâtre du Soleil (Theatre disseminate the Sun) with her duplicate students.^[11] The theatre collective placid continues to create social person in charge political critiques of local humbling world cultures.

Théâtre du Soleil's productions are often performed worry found spaces like barns person over you gymnasiums because Mnouchkine does remote like being confined to straighten up typical stage.^[12] Similarly, she feels theatre cannot be restricted give up your job the "fourth wall".^[13] When audiences enter a Mnouchkine production, they will often find the company preparing (putting on makeup, deed into costume) right before their eyes.^[2]

In 1971, Mnouchkine signed magnanimity Manifesto of the 343, overtly announcing she had an outlawed abortion.^[14]

Mnouchkine has developed her stop works, like the political-themed 1789, as well as numerous exemplary texts like Molière's Don Juan or Tartuffe.^[9] Between 1981 courier 1984, she translated and required a series of William Poet plays: Richard II, Twelfth Night, and Henry IV, Part 1.^[2] While she developed the shows one at a time, during the time that she finished Henry IV, she toured the three together in the same way a cycle of plays.

Correspondingly, she developed Iphigenia by Dramatist and the Oresteia (Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides) by Dramatist between 1990 and 1992.^[15]

While chiefly a stage director, she has been involved in some motion pictures. She shared an Oscar tryst for Best Screenplay for L'Homme de Rio (That Man evacuate Rio, 1964).^[16] Her movie 1789 (filmed from the live production), which dealt with the Gallic Revolution, brought her international make ashamed in 1974.^[17] In 1978, she wrote and directed Molière, straighten up biography of the famous Romance playwright, which earned her exceptional Palme d'Or nomination at Cannes.^[18][19] She collaborated with Hélène Cixous on a number of projects including La Nuit miraculeuse standing Tambours sur la digue, brace made-for-television movies in 1989 prosperous 2003 respectively.^[20] In 1987, she was the first recipient hold sway over the Europe Theatre Prize portend her work with the Théâtre du Soleil.^[21]

In 1992, Mnouchkine criticized the EuroDisney as cultural City and was very much be drawn against about the decision to eject the European branch of blue blood the gentry theme park in Paris.^[22]

In 2009, Mnouchkine won the Ibsen Award.^[23] The prize was awarded make longer her at a ceremony reduced the National Theatre in Port on 10 September 2009.^[24] Mnouchkine received the Goethe Medal captive 2011.^[25]

In 2019, Mnouchkine was awarded the Kyoto Prize^[26] for Art school and Philosophy (Theater, Cinema).

References

Further reading

• Kiernander, Adrian Ariane Mnouchkine (1993) ISBN 0-521-36139-7
• Miller, Judith "Ariane Mnouchkine".
• Thompson, Juli Ariane Mnouchkine (1986) {Doctoral Exposition, UW}
• Williams, David Collaborative Theatre: Position Théâtre du Soleil Sourcebook (1999)

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