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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 company Ariane Films that was founded by her father.[7]

Mnouchkine attended Sorbonne University in Paris, France, where she studied literature.

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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.

Théâtre du Soleil's productions are often performed in found spaces like barns or gymnasiums because Mnouchkine does not like being confined to a typical stage.[12] Similarly, she feels theatre cannot be restricted with the "fourth wall".[13] When audiences enter 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 open 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).

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    About this article Mnouchkine, Ariane Updated About encyclopedia. The "sprawling piece depicts the wrenching displacement of people uprooted by war and cast adrift in a world ill-prepared and shockingly resistant to absorb them," Stasio observed. Sorbonne University. Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

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    The Théâtre du Soleil, Part One: a Brief History of the Company: By , she had formed her own theatre collective called Theatre de Soleil Theatre of the Sun where she tried to create a more universal theatre which uses different styles and she attempted to create social and political critiques of local and world cultures. Mo Huilan —. Because each style has its own formatting nuances that evolve over time and not all information is available for every reference entry or article, Encyclopedia. During the lengthy and often physically uncomfortable performance, "Your body may sag, but your soul is lifted," commented Brustein, "for if Les Atrides subjects you to theater of pain, it has its moments as theater of imagination and majesty as well.

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    Ariane mnouchkine 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. Mnouchkine, Ariane gale. Mnouchkine, Alexandre. An old Russian woman climbs a chain-link fence and gets stuck near the top, while below, the smuggler who had helped her for a fee is knifed to death.

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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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