Le theatre du soleil ariane mnouchkine biography
Le theatre du soleil ariane mnouchkine biography
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Ariane Mnouchkine
French stage director
Ariane Mnouchkine (French:[aʁjannuʃkin]; born 3 March 1939) is a French stage director.[1] She founded the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Théâtre du Soleil in 1964.[2] She wrote and directed 1789 (1974) and Molière (1978), and directed La Nuit Miraculeuse (1989).[3] She holds a Chair of Artistic Creation at the Collège de France,[4] an Honorary Degree in Performing Arts from the University of Rome III, awarded in 2005[5] and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Oxford University, awarded 18 June 2008.[6]
Biography
Ariane Mnouchkine is the daughter of Jewish Russian film producer Alexandre Mnouchkine and June Hannen (daughter of Nicholas Hannen).[2] Mnouchkine's paternal grandparents, Alexandre and Bronislawa Mnouchkine, were both deported from Drancy to Auschwitz on 17 December 1943, where they were both murdered.
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