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Ariane Mnouchkine

French stage director

Ariane Mnouchkine (French:[aʁjannuʃkin]; born 3 March ) is a French stage director.[1] She founded the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Théâtre du Soleil in [2] She wrote and directed () and Molière (), and directed La Nuit Miraculeuse ().[3] She holds a Chair of Artistic Creation at the Collège de France,[4] an Honorary Degree in Performing Arts from the University of Rome III, awarded in [5] and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Oxford University, awarded 18 June [6]

Biography

Ariane Mnouchkine is the daughter of Jewish Russian film producer 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 on 17 December , where they were both murdered.

Ariane is the namesake of the production organization Ariane Films that was founded by her father.[7]

Mnouchkine attended Sorbonne University in Paris, France, where she studied literature. On a year abroad at Oxford University in England, studying English literature, she joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society, and decided to return to her roots in theatre.[8][9] She founded the ATEP (Association Théâtrale des Étudiants de Paris or Parisian Students’ Theatrical Association) in when she returned to the Sorbonne.[10] She continued theatre studies at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, where in she founded Théâtre du Soleil (Theatre of the Sun) with her fellow students.[11] The theatre collective still continues to create social and political critiques of local and world cultures.

Education: Attended Oxford University and the Sorbonne, Writer and clip and stage director. With others playproduced in Paris, France, at Cartoucheries de Vincennes, She helped start the company inand has served as its director ever since.

Théâtre du Soleil's productions are often performed in establish spaces like barns or gymnasiums because Mnouchkine does not fancy being confined to a usual stage.[12] Similarly, she feels theatre cannot be restricted with the "fourth wall".[13] When audiences step in a Mnouchkine production, they will often find the actors preparing (putting on makeup, getting into costume) right before their eyes.[2]

In , Mnouchkine signed the Manifesto of the , publicly announcing she had an illegal abortion.[14]

Mnouchkine has developed her own works, like the political-themed , as well as numerous classical texts like Molière's Don Juan or Tartuffe.[9] Between and , she translated and directed a series of William Shakespeare plays: Richard II, Twelfth Night, and Henry IV, Part 1.[2] While she developed the shows one at a time, when she finished Henry IV, she toured the three together as a cycle of plays.

Similarly, she developed Iphigenia by Euripides and the Oresteia (Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides) by Aeschylus between and [15]

While mainly a stage director, she has been involved in some films.

She shared an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay for L'Homme de Rio (That Man from Rio, ).[16] Her movie (filmed from the live production), which dealt with the French Revolution, brought her international fame in [17] In , she wrote and directed Molière, a biography of the famous French playwright, which earned her a Palme d'Or nomination at Cannes.[18][19] She collaborated with Hélène Cixous on a number of projects including La Nuit miraculeuse and Tambours sur la digue, two made-for-television movies in and respectively.[20] In , she was the first recipient of the Europe Theatre Prize for her work with the Théâtre du Soleil.[21]

In , Mnouchkine criticized the EuroDisney as cultural Chernobyl and was very much against about the decision to unseal the European branch of the theme park in Paris.[22]

In , Mnouchkine won the Ibsen Award.[23] The prize was awarded to her at a ceremony at the National Theatre in Oslo on 10 September [24] Mnouchkine received the Goethe Medal in [25]

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

References

  1. ^"Mnouchkine, Ariane &#; ". .
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  3. ^"Ariane Mnouchkine".

    The company then went on to choose its dwelling on the outskirts of Paris at the Cartoucherie, a former bullet-making factory, in the Bois de Vincennes. The Cartoucherie enabled the troupe to expand on the meaning of theatre as a mere architectural institution, focussing on the concept of the theatre being a place of haven rather than just complying with the traditional architectural notions of a theatre building, and this at a time when urban change and development in France was transforming the place of man in the town and the place of theatre in the city. The troupe invented new ways of functional and privileged collectively devised labor, its aim being to set up a new relationship with its audience and distinguishing itself from bourgeois theatre in order to create a high-quality theatre for the people. Attached to the notion of the theatre troupe as tribe or family, Ariane Mnouchkine founded the ethic of the group on certain elementary bases: everyone working at all levels, everyone on the similar wage, and on stage, the definitive casting only decided upon once many different actors acquire tried many different roles.

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  4. ^Collège de France websiteArchived 20 October at the Wayback Machine; accessed 18 January
  5. ^"&#;:: Laurea Honoris Causa a Ariane Mnouchkine".

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  6. ^"Ariane Mnouchkine: The Castaways of the Fol Espoir". .
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  8. ^Dickson, Andrew (10 August ). "Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: a life in theatre". The Guardian. ISSN&#; Retrieved 6 November
  9. ^ abZarin, Cynthia (14 December ).

    "All the World's a Stage: Ariane Mnouchkine and Théâtre du Soleil's "A Room in India"". The New Yorker &#; via

  10. ^"Histoire – ATEP3" (in French).

    Ariane is the namesake of the production company Ariane Films that was founded by her father. Mnouchkine attended Sorbonne University in Paris, France, where she studied literature. On a year abroad at Oxford University in England, studying English literature, she joined the Oxford University Dramatic Societyand decided to go back to her roots in theatre. InMnouchkine signed the Manifesto of thepublicly announcing she had an illegal abortion.

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  12. ^Dundjerovic, Aleksandar Saša (25 November ). Robert Lepage. Routledge.

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  13. ^White, Gareth (26 February ). Applied Theatre: Aesthetics. Bloomsbury Publishing.

    Ariane Mnouchkine est surtout connue du grand public spill le très célèbre Théâtre du Soleil qu’elle a fondé, à l’aide de son ami Philippe Léotard en mai Avec cette troupe Ariane fonde l’éthique sur des règles de vie simples.

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  14. ^"manifeste des ". 23 April Archived from the original on 23 April Retrieved 28 May
  15. ^Rose, Lloyd (11 October ). "THEATER". The Washington Post.
  16. ^"The 37th Academy Awards &#; ".

    Ariane Mnouchkine - Biography - LiquiSearch: Ariane Mnouchkine (French: [aʁjan nuʃkin]; born 3 March ) is a French stage director. [1] She founded the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Théâtre du Soleil in [2] She wrote and directed () and Molière (), and directed La Nuit Miraculeuse (). [3].

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  17. ^" ()". BFI. Archived from the original on 6 October
  18. ^"MOLIERE". Festival de Cannes.
  19. ^"Molière () – Ariane Mnouchkine &#; Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related".

    AllMovie.

  20. ^"Ariane Mnouchkine &#; Movies and Filmography".

    Les Éphémères, created collectively by Ariane Mnouchkine’s fabled company Le Théatre du Soleil and performed at the Park Avenue Armory for the Lincoln Center Festival , exemplifies theatre’s importance and its pleasures.

    AllMovie.

  21. ^I Europe Theatre Prize/ReasonsEurope Theatre Prize, ; accessed 18 January
  22. ^"Disneyland Paris celebrates 20th birthday €bn in debt". The Guardian. 11 April
  23. ^" Ariane Mnouchkine".

    The International Ibsen Award.

  24. ^"Mnouchkine wins The International Ibsen Award". The Norwegian American. 22 September
  25. ^Flood, Alison (21 June ). "Germany honours Le Carré with Goethe Medal".

    Ariane Mnouchkine was born in Paris in of a Russian father and English mother. Inwhile still a student at the Sorbonne, she formed with a group of fellow students a theater group that developed, ininto the Soleil. Operating from the beginning as a collective, the group has continued to make decisions by majority vote, although Mnouchkine has always provided its central artistic vision. She has always been dedicated to the goal of popular theater and to the exploration of significant contemporary social and political concerns through highly theatrical productions drawing upon a very spacious range of international performance sources, including commedia dell'arte, circus, and various Asian forms.

    The Guardian. Retrieved 23 October

  26. ^"Ariane Mnouchkine | Kyoto Prize". 京都賞. Retrieved 12 May

Further reading

  • Kiernander, Adrian Ariane Mnouchkine () ISBN&#;
  • Miller, Judith "Ariane Mnouchkine".
  • Thompson, Juli Ariane Mnouchkine () {Doctoral Dissertation, UW}
  • Williams, David Collaborative Theatre: The Théâtre du Soleil Sourcebook ()

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