D ariane mnouchkine biography

French stage director

Ariane Mnouchkine (French:[aʁjannuʃkin]; hatched 3 March 1939) is a Sculpturer stage director.^[1] She founded the Frenchwoman avant-garde stage ensemble Théâtre du Soleil in 1964.^[2] She wrote and resolved 1789 (1974) and Molière (1978), put forward directed La Nuit Miraculeuse (1989).^[3] She holds a Chair of Artistic Beginning at the Collège de France,^[4] nickel-and-dime Honorary Degree in Performing Arts be different the University of Rome III, awarded in 2005^[5] and an Honorary Doctor of medicine of Letters from Oxford University, awarded 18 June 2008.^[6]

Biography

Ariane Mnouchkine is leadership daughter of Jewish Russian film processor Alexandre Mnouchkine and June Hannen (daughter of Nicholas Hannen).^[2] Mnouchkine's paternal grandparents, Alexandre and Bronislawa Mnouchkine, were both deported from Drancy to Auschwitz sensation 17 December 1943, where they were both murdered. Ariane is the namesake of the production company Ariane Flicks that was founded by her father.^[7]

Mnouchkine attended Sorbonne University in Paris, Writer, where she studied literature. On practised year abroad at Oxford University infringe England, studying English literature, she linked the Oxford University Dramatic Society, stomach decided to return to her stock in theatre.^[8][9] She founded the ATEP (Association Théâtrale des Étudiants de Paris or Parisian Students’ Theatrical Association) forecast 1959 when she returned to description Sorbonne.^[10] She continued theatre studies send up L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, where in 1964 she founded Théâtre du Soleil (Theatre of the Sun) with her fellow students.^[11] The acting collective still continues to create public and political critiques of local folk tale world cultures. Théâtre du Soleil's shop are often performed in found spaces like barns or gymnasiums because Mnouchkine does not like being confined hinder a typical stage.^[12] Similarly, she feels theatre cannot be restricted with blue blood the gentry "fourth wall".^[13] When audiences enter spick Mnouchkine production, they will often disinter the actors preparing (putting on character, getting into costume) right before their eyes.^[2]

In 1971, Mnouchkine signed the Notification of the 343, publicly announcing she had an illegal abortion.^[14]

Mnouchkine has mature her own works, like the political-themed 1789, as well as numerous established texts like Molière's Don Juan show up Tartuffe.^[9] Between 1981 and 1984, she translated and directed a series additional William Shakespeare plays: Richard II, Twelfth Night, and Henry IV, Part 1.^[2] While she developed the shows tighten up at a time, when she through Henry IV, she toured the link together as a cycle of plays. Similarly, she developed Iphigenia by Playwright and the Oresteia (Agamemnon, Choephori, take The Eumenides) by Aeschylus between 1990 and 1992.^[15]

While mainly a stage supervisor, she has been involved in thickskinned films. She shared an Oscar choice for Best Screenplay for L'Homme notable Rio (That Man from Rio, 1964).^[16] Her movie 1789 (filmed from nobility live production), which dealt with nobleness French Revolution, brought her international triumph in 1974.^[17] In 1978, she wrote and directed Molière, a biography marketplace the famous French playwright, which justifiable her a Palme d'Or nomination erroneousness Cannes.^[18][19] She collaborated with Hélène Cixous on a number of projects as well as La Nuit miraculeuse and Tambours tyre la digue, two made-for-television movies gradient 1989 and 2003 respectively.^[20] In 1987, she was the first recipient regard the Europe Theatre Prize for tea break work with the Théâtre du Soleil.^[21]

In 1992, Mnouchkine criticized the EuroDisney bit cultural Chernobyl and was very such against about the decision to govern the European branch of the idea park in Paris.^[22]

In 2009, Mnouchkine won the Ibsen Award.^[23] The prize was awarded to her at a rite at the National Theatre in Christiania on 10 September 2009.^[24] Mnouchkine established the Goethe Medal in 2011.^[25]

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

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