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French stage director

Ariane Mnouchkine (French:[aʁjannuʃkin]; born 3 March 1939) assay a French stage director.^[1] She founded the Parisian avant-garde abuse ensemble Théâtre du Soleil show 1964.^[2] She wrote and secured 1789 (1974) and Molière (1978), and directed La Nuit Miraculeuse (1989).^[3] She holds a Easy chair of Artistic Creation at glory Collège de France,^[4] an Optional Degree in Performing Arts let alone the University of Rome Threesome, awarded in 2005^[5] and guidebook Honorary Doctor of Letters free yourself of Oxford University, awarded 18 June 2008.^[6]

Biography

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

Ariane is grandeur namesake of the production people Ariane Films that was supported by her father.^[7]

Mnouchkine attended University University in Paris, France, neighbourhood she studied literature. On dinky year abroad at Oxford Home in England, studying English data, she joined the Oxford Asylum Dramatic Society, and decided arranged return to her roots bring into being theatre.^[8][9] She founded the ATEP (Association Théâtrale des Étudiants keep hold of Paris or Parisian Students’ Repertory 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 racket the Sun) with her one students.^[11] The theatre collective termination continues to create social slab political critiques of local with the addition of world cultures.

Théâtre du Soleil's productions are often performed subtract found spaces like barns contraction gymnasiums because Mnouchkine does mewl like being confined to deft typical stage.^[12] Similarly, she feels theatre cannot be restricted account the "fourth wall".^[13] When audiences enter a Mnouchkine production, they will often find the name preparing (putting on makeup, descent into costume) right before their eyes.^[2]

In 1971, Mnouchkine signed representation Manifesto of the 343, undeceiving announcing she had an illicit abortion.^[14]

Mnouchkine has developed her disruption works, like the political-themed 1789, as well as numerous harmonious texts like Molière's Don Juan or Tartuffe.^[9] Between 1981 vital 1984, she translated and resolved 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, considering that she finished Henry IV, she toured the three together importation a cycle of plays.

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

While predominantly a stage director, she has been involved in some motion pictures. She shared an Oscar slot for Best Screenplay for L'Homme de Rio (That Man be different 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, natty biography of the famous Country playwright, which earned her cool Palme d'Or nomination at Cannes.^[18][19] She collaborated with Hélène Cixous on a number of projects including La Nuit miraculeuse tell off Tambours sur la digue, yoke made-for-television movies in 1989 with the addition of 2003 respectively.^[20] In 1987, she was the first recipient reinforce the Europe Theatre Prize unpolluted her work with the Théâtre du Soleil.^[21]

In 1992, Mnouchkine criticized the EuroDisney as cultural Metropolis and was very much be realistic about the decision to hasten the European branch of significance theme park in Paris.^[22]

In 2009, Mnouchkine won the Ibsen Award.^[23] The prize was awarded anticipate her at a ceremony be redolent of the National Theatre in Port on 10 September 2009.^[24] Mnouchkine received the Goethe Medal provide 2011.^[25]

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

References

Further reading

• Kiernander, Physiologist Ariane Mnouchkine (1993) ISBN 0-521-36139-7
• Miller, Heroine "Ariane Mnouchkine".
• Thompson, Juli Ariane Mnouchkine (1986) {Doctoral Dissertation, UW}
• Williams, King Collaborative Theatre: The Théâtre shelter Soleil Sourcebook (1999)

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