Ouriel Zohar
Ouriel Zohar ( born 1952 ) is an Israeli and French theater director, playwright and translator from French in the Hebrew language. In 1986, the Technion Theatre from him was launched and from 1995 he is guest professor at the University of Paris VIII and HEC Paris.
Life
1978 Zohar began working as a director in Paris. He received his doctorate on the subject of collective and universal Kibbutz Theater and taught the times at the University of Paris VIII, where he worked as a university assistant from 1980 to 1985. He has published 150 articles in the theater as well as in academic journals in English, French and Hebrew. His publications in the university setting take, inter alia, Reference to Peter Brook, Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, Jerzy Grotowski, Augusto Boal, Martin Buber and Aharon David Gordon, who dominated the theater crucial. So far he has listed 71 plants in Israel, Europe, Canada and Africa. Around 30 of them, he has written and published in Hebrew. He has, inter alia, Classics by Moliere, Shakespeare, Marivaux, Henrik Ibsen and George Bernard Shaw staged.
1989 - 2009
That he founded Technion Theatre takes part in festivals in Europe, Canada and Israel. He teaches stage aesthetics, writing plays and acting in Paris and Israël. He wrote plays on behalf of both the Habima Theatre from 1989 to 1990 as well as the Haifa Municipal Theatre of 1995-1997. Under his leadership the Jewish- Arab community projects were developed with Artistic focus. He is co-founder of El Midan Arab theater in Haifa in 1994. Between 1993 and 1999 he was vice-president of the International Association -University Theatre ( IUTA ), which has its headquarters in Liège, Belgium, in whose honor he is a member since 2005. Since 1995 he has been a visiting professor at HEC (Paris) and since 1997 at the University of Paris VIII in 1993 he brought the novel by the Sudanese writer At- Tayyib Salih time the northern migration ( Season of Migration to the North) on the stage, under the participation of the Palestinian- Israeli actor Mohammed Bakri, who was awarded the Best Actor of the Acco Festival of alternative Israeli Theatre ( Acco Festival of alternative Israeli Theatre ). With him he also directed the " Bakri - monologue " in French, Arabic and Hebrew. Together with M. Bakri he played in Paris on Boris Vian Hall Theater of Paris -Villette, on the national stage of Cergy- Pontoise, in Lille, at the peace festival in Brussels and in other countries. Under his direction was " The Palestinian " by Yehoshua Sobol, from the Technion Theatre of Haifa, during the " Cologne University Theatre Week 1998» presented, one Israeli - German festival the studio theater Cologne, and also the 5th International Festival of University Theatre Jerusalem. Since 2002, he played Prospero, the lead role in Shakespeare's The Tempest in the theater of Béatrice Brout, and the Earl of Northumberland in Shakespeare's Richard II, and also interpreted texts by Victor Hugo and other French writers.
He founded his own theater group, ' Compagnie Ouriel Zohar " in Paris (2006 ) on the occasion of the drafting of Henrik Ibsen's " An Enemy of the People ", which was premiered in Paris. More performances took place in Fréjus and Besancon, in Liège, Belgium, Minsk, Belarus, in Valleyfield, Canada and in Porto Heli, Greece.
From 2010
In 2010 he staged in Paris " Seraphita " - his adaptation of a written by Honoré de Balzac, in 1834 the novel, at the Theatre de l' Ile Saint- Louis, as well as in Brussels, Greece and Congo - Brazzaville. His staging in the Hebrew language of Henrik Ibsen's " An Enemy of the People " was awarded at the Festival of Benevento, Italy, in 2009, the prize for the best dramatic performance. Since 2007 he has been an international juror at international competitions ( in Paris, Minsk, Moscow, etc. ) have been appointed in the area of European universities theater - he leads master classes in acting and directing at festivals in Europe.
Among his pupils was the Caméra d'Or - winner Scandar Copti, director and screenwriter of " Ajami ". This won five Ophir Awards, and an Oscar for " Best Foreign Language Film ( Academy Award for best foreign language film ) " in Los Angeles in 2009. Zohar itself under six books in Hebrew and a book in French with his wife Martine Zohar entitled " My Life in Israel in light of the pine " published. " ( Persée editor, France 2009).