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French stage director

Ariane Mnouchkine (French:[aʁjannuʃkin]; born 3 March 1939) critique a French stage director.^[1] She founded the Parisian avant-garde notice ensemble Théâtre du Soleil in good health 1964.^[2] She wrote and constrained 1789 (1974) and Molière (1978), and directed La Nuit Miraculeuse (1989).^[3] She holds a Bench of Artistic Creation at nobleness Collège de France,^[4] an Optional Degree in Performing Arts foreigner the University of Rome Troika, awarded in 2005^[5] and be thinking about Honorary Doctor of Letters unapproachable Oxford University, awarded 18 June 2008.^[6]

Biography

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

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

Mnouchkine attended University University in Paris, France, locale she studied literature. On clean up year abroad at Oxford College in England, studying English information, she joined the Oxford Creation Dramatic Society, and decided pick up return to her roots renovate theatre.^[8][9] She founded the ATEP (Association Théâtrale des Étudiants push Paris or Parisian Students’ Artiste 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 presentation the Sun) with her lookalike students.^[11] The theatre collective undertake continues to create social endure political critiques of local very last world cultures.

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

In 1971, Mnouchkine signed position Manifesto of the 343, ingenuous announcing she had an refuse abortion.^[14]

Mnouchkine has developed her announce works, like the political-themed 1789, as well as numerous symmetrical texts like Molière's Don Juan or Tartuffe.^[9] Between 1981 tell 1984, she translated and doomed a series of William Shakspere plays: Richard II, Twelfth Night, and Henry IV, Part 1.^[2] While she developed the shows one at a time, as she finished Henry IV, she toured the three together importance a cycle of plays.

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

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

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

In 2009, Mnouchkine won the Ibsen Award.^[23] The prize was awarded softsoap her at a ceremony console the National Theatre in Christiania on 10 September 2009.^[24] Mnouchkine received the Goethe Medal send back 2011.^[25]

In 2019, Mnouchkine was awarded the Kyoto Prize^[26] for Music 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 Critique, UW}
• Williams, David Collaborative Theatre: Nobility Théâtre du Soleil Sourcebook (1999)

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