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Patrice Chéreau (1944 - 2013) was one of France's leading directors in the theatre and on film and a major influence on Shakespearean.

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Patrice Chéreau

Since he was a young boy, Patrice Chéreau knew that he would be in the theatre: his career did not belie his premonition. It was in 1966, with L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine by Labiche, that the public discovered this young director, just before he became, at the age of 22, the new director of the Théâtre de Sartrouville. After this first foray into the public theatre institution, he joined the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, at the time run by Giorgio Strehler. From this encounter and the two years of intensive work that followed, a demanding approach to lighting would remain, permitting him to set off the space of the stage and the bodies pacing across it. When he returned to France in 1972, he was appointed assistant director of the Théâtre national populaire de Villeurbanne, at Roger Planchon's invitation. For nearly a decade, he would create there memorable stagings of classic as well as contemporary texts. Appointed co-director of the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in 1981, he was determined to bring the author Bernard-Marie Koltès to the attention of the public,

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Patrice Chéreau : Shakespeare, le choix du théâtre

Patrice Chéreau’s contribution to the history of Shakespeare’s reception in France consists in three landmark productions: Richard II (1970), Hamlet (1988) and Henri VI – Richard III (Fragments) (1998). Chéreau’s approach to Shakespeare’s plays is to discover what they have to say to today’s actors and audiences about the contemporary world in which they live. Chéreau’s stage language discovers in the plays of Shakespeare a combination of powerful myths, a well-defined theatricality, and characters who are themselves actors. It is a combination that reflects his own view of the world and the theatre.

CLIL theme: 4028 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes de littérature comparée
ISBN:978-2-8124-6060-9
EAN:9782812460609
ISSN: 2045-8541
DOI:10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-6060-9.p.0193
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 04-21-2016
Periodicity: Biannual
Language: French

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Patrice Chéreau

French opera and theatre director

Patrice Chéreau (; French:[patʁisʃeʁo]; 2 November 1944 – 7 October 2013) was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer. In France he is best known for his work for the theatre, internationally for his films La Reine Margot and Intimacy, and for his staging of the Jahrhundertring, the centenary Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976. Winner of almost twenty movie awards, including the Cannes Jury Prize and the Golden Berlin Bear, Chéreau served as president of the jury at the 2003 Cannes festival.

From 1966, he was artistic director of the Public-Theatre in the Parisian suburb of Sartrouville, where in his team were stage designer Richard Peduzzi, costume designer Jacques Schmidt and lighting designer André Diot, with whom he collaborated in many later productions. From 1982, he was director of "his own stage" at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers at Nanterre where he staged plays by Jean Racine, Marivaux and Shakespeare as well as works by Jean Genet, Heiner Müller and Bernard-Ma