Ariane Mnouchkine
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Ariane Mnouchkine 3 March 1939 Boulogne-sur-Seine, France |
| Years active | 1964 – present |
Ariane Mnouchkine (born 3 March 1939) is a 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, an Honorary Degree in Performing Arts from the University of Rome III, awarded in 2005 Roma Tre University website and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Oxford University, awarded 18 June 2008.
Ariane Mnouchkine is the daughter of Russian film producer Alexandre Mnouchkine and June 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. Théâtre du Soleil's productions are often performed in found spaces like barns or gymnasiums because Mnouchkine does not like being confined to a typical stage. Similarly, she feels theatre cannot be restricted with the "fourth wall". When audiences enter a Mnouchkine production, they will often find the actors preparing (putting on makeup, getting into costume) right before their eyes.
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