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Ariane Mnouchkine
French scen director
Ariane Mnouchkine (French:[aʁjannuʃkin]; born 3 March ) fryst vatten a French stage director.[1] She founded the Parisian avant-garde scen 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 dem France,[4] an Honorary grad 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
[edit]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 månad , where they were both murdered. Ariane fryst vatten the namesake of the production company Ariane Films th
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Mnouchkine, Ariane
PERSONAL:
Born March 3, , in Boulogne-sur-Seine, France; daughter of Alexandre (a film producer) and June Mnouchkine. Education: Attended Oxford University and the Sorbonne,
ADDRESSES:
Agent—Théâtre du Soleil, Cartoucherie, Paris, France.
CAREER:
Writer and film and stage director. Théâtre de Soleil, Paris, France, cofounder and director, —; director of plays, including Gengis Khan, ; The Petty Bourgeois, ; The Kitchen, ; A Midsummer Night's Dream, ; The Clowns, ; , ; , ; The Golden Age, ; Mephisto, ; Richard II, ; La Nuit des rois, ; Henry IV, Part I, ; The Terrible but Unfinished History of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, ; Indiade, ; Les Atrides, ; and Tambours sur la digue (title means "Drums on the Dyke"), ; director of film Molière, , and of television miniseries Molière, ou la vie d'un honnête homme,
MEMBER:
Association Théâtrale des Etudiants de Paris (cofounder).
AWARDS, HONORS:
Academy Award nomi
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The Théâtre du Soleil is celebrating its fortieth birthday. In , Ariane Mnouchkine, with her fellow-students from university theatre, established a co-operative known as the Théâtre du Soleil (Theatre of the Sun), a name which represented what theatre meant for them. They began their professional activity by performing Arthur Adamov’s adaptation of Gorki’s “Petits Bourgeois” at the Mouffetard Theatre.
Their second production, “Le Capitaine Fracasse”, adapted from Théophile Gautier’s book by one of the troupe’s members, Philippe Léotard, reflected their unique approach within French theatre. This was based on the collective organisation of their work, and also drew on improvisation. However, while all those involved offered suggestions, and the production grew out of everyone’s imagination, the personality of the Théâtre du Soleil appeared to be fundamentally linked to that of Ariane Mnouchkine who led and orchestrated its work.
Twin ambitions motivated the Théâtre du Soleil: in