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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 was completed in 1838 and opened as the Théâtre des Batignolles. It was later renamed Théâtre des Arts in 1907. Jacques Rouché was the director of the theatre from 1910 to 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 both English and 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 Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau ( , ; ; 5 July 1889 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th-century and hugely influential on the surrealist and Dadaist movements, among others. The National Observer (United States), ''National Observer'' suggested that "of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth Century Art, Cocteau came closest to being a Renaissance man". He is best known for his novels (1923), (1928), and (1929); the stage plays (1930), (1934), (1938), (1941), and (1946); and the films ''The Blood of a Poet'' (1930), (1948), ''Beauty and the Beast (1946 film), Beauty and the Beast'' (1946), ''Orpheus (film), Orpheus'' (1950), and ''Testament of Orpheus'' (1960), which alongside ''Blood of a Poet'' and ''Orpheus'' constitute the so-called Orphic Trilogy. He was described as "one of [the] avant-gard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Bouquet
Michel François Pierre Bouquet (6 November 1925 – 13 April 2022) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for '' Toto the Hero'' in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for '' How I Killed My Father'' (2001) and '' The Last Mitterrand'' (2005). He also received the Molière Award for Best Actor for ''Les côtelettes'' in 1998, then again for '' Exit the King'' in 2005. In 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Molière for the sum of his career. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 2018. Biography Michel François Pierre Bouquet was born on 6 November 1925 in Paris. When he was seven years old, he was sent to a boarding school where he stayed until the age of 14. He aspired to become a doctor but had to quit school at the age of 15 after his father had been taken prisoner during World War II. Bouquet worked as a baker's apprentice, then a bank clerk, to provide for the family. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Philipe
Gérard Philipe () (born Gérard Albert Philip, 4 December 1922 – 25 November 1959) was a prominent French actor who appeared in 32 films between 1944 and 1959. He came to prominence during the later period of the poetic realism movement of French Cinema in the late 1940s. His best known credits include ''Une si jolie petite plage, Such a Pretty Little Beach'' (1949), ''Beauty and the Devil'' (1950), ''Fanfan la Tulipe, Fan Fan the Tulip'' (1953), ''Montparnasse 19'' (1958) and ''Les liaisons dangereuses (1959 film), Les liaisons dangereuses'' (1959). During his career he performed with some of the most famous and glamorous leading ladies of the era including Jeanne Moreau, Michèle Morgan, Micheline Presle, Danielle Darrieux, Gina Lollobrigida and Anouk Aimée. As well as a successful film career, he was also a highly regarded classical actor, later achieving further fame when he became a member of Jean Vilar's Théâtre national populaire where he performed in many of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Camus
Albert Camus ( ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include ''The Stranger (Camus novel), The Stranger'', ''The Plague (novel), The Plague'', ''The Myth of Sisyphus'', ''The Fall (Camus novel), The Fall'' and ''The Rebel (book), The Rebel''. Camus was born in French Algeria to ''pied-noir'' parents. He spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He was in Paris when the Battle of France, Germans invaded France during World War II in 1940. Camus tried to flee but finally joined the French Resistance where he served as editor-in-chief at ''Combat (newspaper), Combat'', an outlawed newspaper. After the war, he was a celebrity figure and gave many lectures around the world. He married twice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caligula (play)
''Caligula'' is a play written by Albert Camus, begun in 1938 (the date of the first manuscript is 1939) and published for the first time in May 1944 by Éditions Gallimard. It premiered on 26 September 1945 at the Théâtre Hébertot in Paris, starring Gérard Philipe (Caligula), Michel Bouquet and Georges Vitaly and was directed by Paul Œttly. The play was later the subject of numerous revisions. It is part of what Camus called the " Cycle of the Absurd", together with the novel '' The Stranger'' (1942) and the essay '' The Myth of Sisyphus'' (1942). A number of critics have reported the piece to be existentialist, though Camus always denied belonging to this philosophy. Its plot revolves around the historical figure of Caligula, a Roman Emperor famed for his cruelty and seemingly insane behavior. Overview The play depicts Caligula, Emperor of Rome, torn by the death of Drusilla, his sister and lover. In Camus' version of events, Caligula eventually deliberately manipulate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Marchal
Georges Marchal (10 January 1920 – 28 November 1997) was a French actor. Born Georges Louis Lucot in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, the strikingly handsome Marchal was discovered in the early-1940s by director Jean Grémillon. By the early 1950s, he had become one of the top male stars of French cinema, second only, perhaps, to actor Jean Marais. He was also a favorite leading man of filmmaker Luis Buñuel, appearing in the director's films '' La voie lactée'', '' Belle de jour'', '' Cela s'appelle l'aurore'', and '' La mort en ce jardin''. In 1951, Marchal married French actress Dany Robin and together they were a popular couple, playing in the movies ''La Passagère'' (1949), ''La Voyageuse inattendue'', ''Le plus joli péché du monde'', ''Jupiter'' directed by Gilles Grangier (1952), and ''Quand sonnera midi'' directed by Edmond T. Gréville (1958). On television, Marchal played Claude Jade's father in the TV-series '' The Island of Thirty Coffins'', and appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Pasquali
Alfred-Adolphe Pasquali (31 October 1898 – 12 June 1991) was a French actor and theatre director. Theatre Comedian * 1921 : ''La Dauphine'' by François Porché, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier * 1925 : ''La Robe d'un soir'' by Rosemonde Gérard, directed by Firmin Gémier, Théâtre de l'Odéon * 1926 : ''Dalilah'' by Paul Demasy, Théâtre de l'Odéon * 1933 : ''La Femme en blanc'' by Marcel Achard, Théâtre Michel * 1933 : ''Teddy and Partner'' by Yvan Noé, Théâtre Michel * 1933 : ''Le Vent et la Pluie'' by Georges de Warfaz after Merton Hodge, Théâtre des Célestins * 1940 : '' Plutus'' after Aristophanes, directed by Charles Dullin, Théâtre de Paris * 1943 : ''Feu du ciel'', operetta by Jean Tranchant, directed by Alfred Pasquali, Théâtre Pigalle * 1945 : '' Topaze'' by Marcel Pagnol, directed by Alfred Pasquali, Théâtre Pigalle * 1947 : ''La Perverse Madame Russel'' by Joan Morgan, directed by Alfred Pasquali, Théâtre Verlaine * 1951 : '' Les ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Dasté
Jean Dasté (born Jean Georges Gustave Dasté; 18 September 1904 – 15 October 1994) lesgensducinema.com. Accessed 1 February 2024. was a French actor and theatre director. Although Jean Dasté is best known for his career on stage as both an actor and director in a variety of works including those by and , he made his first appearance on screen in a 1932 film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Barsacq
André Barsacq (24 January 1909 – 8 July 1973) was a French theatre director, producer, scenic designer, and playwright. From 1940 to 1973 he was the director of the Théâtre de l'Atelier. He was the brother of Russian production designer Léon Barsacq and the uncle of film actor Yves Barsacq. Life and career Barsacq was born in the city of Feodosiya in Crimea. His father was French and his mother was Russian. At the age of 15 he traveled to Paris to study at the School of Decorative Arts and lived in France from then on. In 1928 he was at the Théâtre de l'Atelier working with its director, Charles Dullin on productions which included Jules Romains's 1923 play '' Knock''. As director of the Théâtre de l'Atelier he introduced Parisian audiences to the plays of Ugo Betti, Félicien Marceau, Marcel Ayme ('' The Moon Birds''), Françoise Sagan, René de Obaldia, and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. He successfully adapted the works of Chekhov, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev for the Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (; ; 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play '' Antigone'', an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise. Life and career Early life Anouilh was born in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux, France and had Basque ancestry. His father, François Anouilh, was a tailor, and Anouilh maintained that he inherited from him a pride in conscientious craftmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, Marie-Magdeleine, a violinist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thieves' Carnival
''Le Bal des Voleurs'' (''Thieves' Carnival'') is a play written by French playwright Jean Anouilh, first staged at Théâtre des Arts, Paris on 17 August 1938. Later productions ''Thieves' Carnival'' was presented on the televised series ''The Play of the Week ''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The ...'' in 1959. Awards and nominations * 1955 Vernon Rice Award for Best Production (Drama Desk Awards) References * * External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thieves' Carnival 1938 plays Plays by Jean Anouilh Drama Desk Award–winning plays Off-Broadway plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
