Ariane Mnouchkine
Overview
Stage (theatre)
In theatre or performance arts, the stage is a designated space for the performance productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience...
director. She founded the Parisian
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
avant-garde
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
stage ensemble Théâtre du Soleil
Théâtre du Soleil
Le Théâtre du Soleil is a Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble founded by Ariane Mnouchkine, Philippe Léotard and fellow students of the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in 1964 as a collective of theatre artists. Le Théâtre du Soleil is located at La Cartoucherie, a former munitions...
in 1964. She has written and directed 1789 (1974) and Molière
Molière (1978 film)
Molière is a 1978 French drama film directed by Ariane Mnouchkine. It was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Philippe Caubère - Molière / The Death* Marie-Françoise Audollent * Jonathan Sutton - La Grange...
(1978), and in 1989, she directed La Nuit Miraculeuse. She holds a Chair of Artistic Creation at the Collège de France
Collège de France
The Collège de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles...
http://www.college-de-france.fr/default/EN/all/cre_art/, and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Oxford, awarded 18 June 2008 http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2007-8/supps/1_4850.htm#3Ref.
Ariane Mnouchkine is the daughter of Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n film producer Alexandre Mnouchkine
Alexandre Mnouchkine
Alexandre Mnouchkine was a French film producer.He moved to Paris in 1925. After his entry into cinema in 1932, he created Ariane Films in 1945. Alexandre Mnouchkine married twice, the second time to the comédienne Simone Renant...
and maternal granddaughter of British stage actor Nicholas Hannen.
Quotations
My engagements were always idealistic.
I am in the present and only the present matters to me.
The director has already achieved the greatest degree of power he has ever had in history. And our aim is to move beoynd that situation by creating a form of theatre where it will be possible for everyone to collaborate without there being directors, technicians, and so on, in the old sense.