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Ariane Mnouchkine (born
1939 in
Boulogne-sur-Seine) is a world-renowned French
stage director. She founded the
Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble
Théâtre du Soleil in 1964. She has written and directed
1789 (1974) and
Molière (1978), and in 1989, she directed
La Nuit Miraculeuse. She holds a Chair of Artistic Creation at the
Collège de France (External Link
).
Biography
Ariane Mnouchkine is the daughter of
Russian film producer
Alexandre Mnouchkine and maternal granddaughter of British stage actor
Nicholas Hannen. Ariane is the namesake of the production company "
Ariane Films" that was founded by her father.
Mnouchkine attended University in
England and studied
psychology before returning to her roots in theatre. She continued theatre studies at
L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq where in 1964 she founded
Théâtre du Soleil (Theatre of the Sun) with her fellow students. The theatre collective still continues to create social and political critiques of local and world cultures.
Mnouchkine is a strong influence in modern theatre and is quoted for saying "I am in the present and only the present matters to me" on a regular basis.
Mnouchkine is a strong believer in the collaborative process of theatre. She builds her work with her company
Théâtre du Soleil and has been quoted as saying "the director has already achieved the greatest degree of power he's ever had in history. And our aim is to move beyond that situation by creating a form of theatre where it'll be possible for everyone to collaborate without there being directors, technicians, and so on, in the old sense." She and her company develop their works using many techniques. Sometimes, the troupe develops ideas out of improvisational exercises. They also incorporate multiple styles of theatre in their work - ranging from
commedia dell'arte to various Asian rituals.
Théâtre du Soleil's productions are often performed in found spaces like barns or gymnasiums because Mnouchkine doesn't like being confined to a typical stage. Similarly, she feels theatre can't be restricted with the "fourth wall". When audiences enter a Mnouchkine production, that'll often find the actors preparing (putting on makeup, getting into costume) right before their eyes.
Mnouchkine has developed her own works, like the political-themed
1789, as well as numerous classical texts, like
Molière's
Don Juan or
Tartuffe. Between 1981 and 1984, she translated and directed a series of
William Shakespeare plays:
Richard II,
Twelfth Night, and
Henry IV, Part 1. 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) between 1990 and 1992.
While mainly a stage director, Ariane has been involved in a few movies. Her movie
1789 filmed from the live production), which dealt with the
French Revolution, brought her international fame in 1974. In 1978 she wrote and directed
Molière, a biography of
the famous French playwright for which she received an
Oscar nomination. She has also collaborated with
Hélène Cixous on a number of projects including
La Nuit miraculeuse and
Tambours sur la digue, two made-for-television movies in 1989 and 2003 respectively. She also has writing credit for
L'Homme de Rio ("The Man From Rio"), 1964.
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