Jacques Copeau

Jacques Copeau ( born February 4, 1879 in Paris, † 20 October 1949 in Beaune) was a French theater director, actor and playwright.

Biography

Copeau began in the 1890s to write comedies, of which Brouillard du matin in 1897 listed on the Nouveau Théâtre and discussed by Francisque Sarcey in Le Temps. He wrote as a theater critic for L' Ermitage ( 1904-06 ), Theatre ( 1905-14 ) and La Grande Revue ( 1907-10 ) and worked from 1905 to 1910 as an art dealer Georges Petit in the gallery.

In 1908 he founded with André Gide, Jean Schlumberger, Henri Ghéon, André Marcel Drouin Ruyter and the Nouvelle Revue Française, which persists to the present. In 1913, he founded a small theater, the Théâtre du Vieux- Colombier, where he implemented his ideas of a recovery by the theatrical departure from contemporary naturalistic concept. He won for the house actors like Charles Dullin, Louis Jouvet ( who also worked as a gaffer and director), Blanche Albane and Suzanne Bing.

After a trip to America the theater company 1917-19 Copeau opened in 1920 his theater in Paris again. He also opened a theater school under the direction of Jules Romains, studied at the young actors like Michel Saint -Denis, Léon Chancerel, Jean Dasté, Marie- Hélène Dasté, Etienne Decroux and the duo Gilles et Julien. After the failure of his theater play La Maison natale, which was met with incomprehension, even with friends, he withdrew from Paris and completed in 1924, the Théâtre du Vieux- Colombier.

In the following years, Copeau operated as a theater critic for the Nouvelles littéraires. He conducted open-air performances of Santa Uliva (1933 ), Savonarole (1935 ) and Comme il vous plaira (1938 ) and directed 1936-37 Le Misanthrope, Bajazet, Asmodée of François Mauriac and Le Testament du Père Leleu by Roger Martin du Gard at the Comédie - Française and 1940 as the provisional director Jean -Louis Barrault's Le Cid.

In 1941 he resigned from the leadership of the Comédie- Française, published Le Théâtre populaire font and finished the drama Le Petit Pauvre on the life of Francis of Assisi. In spite of the war and his own illness, he directed in 1943 with the support of André Barsacq the piece Miracle du pain doré at the Hospices de Beaune. Copeaus theater work had a significant influence on theater makers such as Étienne Decroux, Charles Dullin, Jean Louis Barrault, Jacques Lecoq, Marcel Marceau and Antonin Artaud.

" Dans l' histoire du théâtre français, il ya deux périodes: avant et après Copeau. " ( In the history of the French theater, there are two periods:. Before and after Copeau ) ( Albert Camus )

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  • Studio for physical theater - Jacques Copeau
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  • Born in 1879
  • Died in 1949
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