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Molière Award
The Molière Award recognises achievement in live French theatre and is the national theatre award of France. The awards are presented and decided by the ''Association professionnelle et artistique du théâtre'' (APAT) and supported by the Ministry of Culture at an annual ceremony, called the Nuit des Molières ("Night of the Molières") in Paris. The awards are given for French productions and performances. The Molière Awards are considered the highest French theatre honour, the equivalent to the American Tony Award, the British Olivier Award and the Spanish Premios Max. The award was created by Georges Cravenne, who was also the creator of the César Award for cinema. The name of the award is an homage to the seventeenth-century French dramatist Molière. Awards by year and category 1987 Jury presided by Jean-Louis Barrault. Awards hosted by François Périer. * Best Actor - Philippe Clévenot, in ''Elvire Jouvet 40'' * Best Supporting Actor - Pierre Arditi, in ''La Ré ...
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Theatre Of France
This article is an overview of the theatre of France. Historic overview Secular French theatre Discussions about the origins of non-religious theatre ("théâtre profane") -- both drama and farce—in the Middle Ages remain controversial, but the idea of a continuous popular tradition stemming from Latin comedy and tragedy to the 9th century seems unlikely. Most historians place the origin of medieval drama in the church's liturgical dialogues and "tropes". At first simply dramatizations of the ritual, particularly in those rituals connected with Christmas and Easter (see ''Mystery play''), plays were eventually transferred from the monastery church to the chapter house or refectory hall and finally to the open air, and the vernacular was substituted for Latin. In the 12th century one finds the earliest extant passages in French appearing as refrains inserted into liturgical dramas in Latin, such as a Saint Nicholas (patron saint of the student clercs) play and a Saint Stephen ...
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Molière Award For Best Actress
Molière Award for Best Actress. Superlatives Winners and nominees * 1987 : Suzanne Flon in '' Léopold le bien aimé'' ** Nicole Garcia in ''Two for the Seesaw'' (''Deux sur la balançoire'') ** Denise Grey in ''Harold and Maude'' (''Harold et Maude'') ** Jeanne Moreau in '' Zerline's Tale'' (''Le Récit de la servante Zerline'') ** Dominique Valadié in ''Hedda Gabler'' * 1988 : Jeanne Moreau in '' Zerline's Tale'' (''Le récit de la servante Zerline'') ** María Casares in ''Hecuba'' (''Hécube'') ** Anny Duperey in '' The Secret'' ''(Le Secret'') ** Macha Méril in '' L'Éloignement'' ** Delphine Seyrig in ''Woman in Mind'' (''Un jardin en désordre'') * 1989 : María Casares in ''Hecuba'' (''Hécube'') ** Suzanne Flon in ''Une absence'' ** Denise Gence in ''The Chairs'' (''Les Chaises'') ** Catherine Hiegel in ''La Veillée'' ** Isabelle Huppert in '' A Month in the Country'' (''Un mois à la campagne'') * 1990 : Denise Gence in '' Avant la retraite'' ** Jane Birk ...
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Molière Award For Best Director
Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees. * 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (''Le Mariage de Figaro'') **Robert Hossein, for ''Kean (play), Kean'' **Jorge Lavelli, for ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (''Le Songe d'une nuit d'été'') **Sophie Loucachevski, for ''Madame de Sade'' **Pierre Mondy, pour ''Two into One'' (''C'est encore mieux l'après-midi'') **Jérôme Savary, pour ''Cabaret (musical), Cabaret'' * 1988 : Laurent Terzieff pour ''Fall (play), Fall'' (''Ce que voit Fox'') **Robert Hossein for ''L'Affaire du courrier de Lyon'' **Bernard Murat for ''L'Éloignement'' **Antoine Vitez for ''The Satin Slipper'' (''Le Soulier de satin'') **Georges Wilson for ''Je ne suis pas Rappaport'' * 1989 : Patrice Chéreau for ''Hamlet'' **Maurice Benichou for ''Une absence'' **Jorge Lavelli for ''Réveille-toi Philadelphie'' **Pierre Mondy for ''La Présidente'' **Jean-Pierre Vincent for ''Le Faiseur de théâtre'' * 1990 : Gérard Caillaud for ' ...
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Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays '' 'Art''' and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 black comedy film '' Carnage'', directed by Roman Polanski, was based on Reza's Tony Award-winning 2006 play ''God of Carnage''. Life and career Reza's father was a Russian-born Bukharan Jewish engineer, businessman, and pianist and her mother was a Jewish Hungarian violinist from Budapest. During the Nazi occupation, her father was deported from Nice to Drancy internment camp. At the beginning of her career, Reza acted in several new plays as well as in plays by Molière and Marivaux. In 1987, she wrote ''Conversations after a Burial'', which won the Molière Award, the French equivalent of the Tony Award, for Best Author. The North American production premiered in February 2013 at Players by the Sea in Jacksonville Beach Florida. Holly G ...
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Two For The Seesaw (play)
''Two for the Seesaw'' is a three-act, two-person play written William Gibson. The play opened on Broadway on January 16, 1958, at the Booth Theatre in New York and ran for 750 performances, closing on October 31, 1959. With the opening cast of Henry Fonda (Jerry Ryan) and Anne Bancroft (Gittel Mosca), the play was directed by Arthur Penn and produced by Fred Coe. A surprise hit, ''Two for the Seesaw'' earned Anne Bancroft, making her Broadway debut, her first Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. The play was adapted into a film of the same name in 1962, directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine, and was later adapted into the musical ''Seesaw'' in 1973. The play marked the Broadway debut of writer William Gibson, who would later collaborate with Penn and Coe on the play and film adaptations of ''The Miracle Worker'', which also featured Bancroft in the lead role. Published in 1959, a year after ''Two for the Seesaw'' opened on Broadw ...
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Jean-Loup Dabadie
Jean-Loup Dabadie (27 September 1938 – 24 May 2020) was a French journalist, writer, lyricist, screenwriter and member of the Académie Française. Filmography * ''Anna'' (1967) * ''Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me'' (1972) * '' Parisian Life'' (1977) * '' Courage – Let's Run'' (1979) * ''Clara et les Chics Types'' (1981) * '' Get Well Soon'' (2014) Awards 1985 Mystfest for Original Story – '' La Septième Cible'' – directed by Claude Pinoteau Claude Pinoteau (25 May 1925 – 5 October 2012) was a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, aged 87. (in French) His sister was the actress ... Nominated three times for a Cesar Award. References External links *L'Académie française* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dabadie, Jean-Loup 1938 births 2020 deaths Members of the Académie Française French male screenwriters Lycée Janson-de-Sailly alumni Writers from Paris Command ...
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Théâtre National De Chaillot
The Théâtre National de Chaillot (English: Chaillot National Theatre) is a theatre located in the Palais de Chaillot at 1, place du Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Close by the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadéro Gardens—the Théâtre de Chaillot is among the largest concert halls in Paris. It has long been synonymous with popular theatre and is especially associated with stars such as Jean Vilar and Antoine Vitez. In 1975 the French Ministry of Culture designated it as one of the four List of theatres and opera houses in Paris#National theatres, national theatres of Paris. History The Théâtre national de Chaillot was built between 1934 and 1937 by the brothers Jean and Édouard Niermans for the Paris Exhibition of 1937 on the site of the former Trocadéro#The old Palais du Trocadéro, Trocadéro Palace, itself an elaborate structure built for the Exposition Universelle (1878), Paris World's Fair of 1878. Starting in 1973 the interior of the theatre was comple ...
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The Marriage Of Figaro
''The Marriage of Figaro'' ( it, Le nozze di Figaro, links=no, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on the 1784 stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, '' La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro'' ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"). It tells how the servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity. Considered one of the greatest operas ever written, it is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed operas. In 2017, BBC News Magazine asked 172 opera singers to vote for the best operas ever written. ''The Marriage of Figaro'' came in first out of ...
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Théâtre Tristan-Bernard
The théâtre Tristan-Bernard is a private Parisian theatre located at 64 rue du Rocher in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. History Built in 1911 by the foundation Léopold-Bellan (which still owns it today) to host meetings and educational shows of its institution of young girls, the venue opened in 1919 to the public under the name Théâtre Albert-I, in honor of king of Belgium. Tristan Bernard took the lead in 1930. He renamed it Théâtre Tristan-Bernard and presented his comedies for a season. After his departure, the theater regained its name Théâtre Albert-Ier. In 1936, the comedian Charles de Rochefort, on his return from the United States where he worked for Cecil B. de Mille, reopened the theater, which became the Théâtre Charles-de-Rochefort with ''Allo, Police-secours'', a police play under the pseudonym Chas D. Strongstone. The success incited him to present many police and suspense plays. The Young Theater Companies competition was organized every year in ...
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Théâtre Hébertot
Théâtre Hébertot () is a theatre at 78, boulevard des Batignolles, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. History The theatre, completed in 1838 and opening as the Théâtre des Batignolles, was later renamed Théâtre des Arts in 1907. Jacques Rouché was the director of the theatre from 1910-1913. It acquired its present name in 1940 after playwright and journalist Jacques Hébertot. Current Use Théâtre Hébertot has a seating capacity of 630 for the main stage, and completed construction on a smaller stage, l'Petit Hébertot, in 2001. The Hebertot is one of the few Paris theaters that has shows in English as well as French. Danièle and Pierre Franck are its current directors. Productions * 1911: Le Chagrin dans le palais de Han (Grief at the Han Palace) by Louis Laloy, directed by Jacques Rouché * 1913: ''L'incoronazione di Poppea'' by Claudio Monteverdi, produced by Jacques Rouché * 1925: '' Henry IV'' by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Georges Pitoëff ...
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Cabaret (musical)
''Cabaret'' is a 1966 musical theatre, musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Joe Masteroff. The musical was based on John Van Druten's 1951 play ''I Am a Camera'' which was adapted from ''Goodbye to Berlin'' (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel by Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood which drew upon his experiences in the poverty-stricken Weimar Republic and his intimate friendship with nineteen-year-old cabaret singer Jean Ross. Set in 1929–1930 Berlin during the twilight of the Jazz Age as the Nazi Party, Nazis are ascending to power, the musical focuses on the hedonistic nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around American writer Clifford Bradshaw's relations with English cabaret performer Sally Bowles. A subplot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany, Jewish fruit vendor. Overseeing the action ...
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Ute Lemper
Ute Gertrud Lemper (; born 4 July 1963) is a German singer and actress. Her roles in musicals include playing Sally Bowles in the original Paris production of ''Cabaret'', for which she won the 1987 Molière Award for Best Newcomer, and Velma Kelly in the revival of ''Chicago'' in both London and New York, which won her the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Biography Born in Münster, (Germany), Ute Gertrude Lemper was raised in a Roman Catholic family. She joined the jazz-rock music group known as the Panama Drive Band at the age of 16. Later, she graduated from the Dance Academy in Cologne and the Max Reinhardt Seminary Drama School in Vienna. Her diverse credits include musicals, such as her breakthrough role in the original Viennese cast of ''Cats'', the title role in ''Peter Pan'', a recreation of the Marlene Dietrich-created Lola in ''The Blue Angel'', the original European Sally Bowles in a Paris production of ''Cabaret'', and Velma Kelly in ''Chicago'' ...
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