Émile Fabre
Émile Fabre (24 March 1869 in
Émile Fabre | |
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Born | 24 March 1869 Metz, France |
Died | 25 September 1955 Paris, France |
1936.
Career at the Comédie-Française
Fabre was appointed general administrator of the Comédie-Française on 2 December 1915.[2]:227 According to Susan McCready,
During Fabre's tenure, the Comédie-Française moved from the center of the theatre scene, where theatrical creation and innovation are paramount, to its periphery, where [ . . . ] its role was increasingly limited to the preservation of the past.[2]:2
In 1922 he organised the Cycle Moliere, in which all of Moliere's plays were performed in chronological order.[2]:231
The success of this event, encouraged him to organise the Centennial of Romanticism in 1927, the 100-year anniversary of Victor Hugo's Preface de Cromwell (Qe Waleffe).[2]:232 Over the course of the Centennial the theatre staged twenty-one Romantic plays.
He resigned from the position 15 October 1936.[2]:227
Plays
Fabre's plays include:[3]
- L'Argent (Money), 1895
- La Vie publique (Public Life), 1901
- Les Ventres dorés (Gilded Stomachs), 1905
- Les Sauterelles (The Locusts), 1911
References
- ^ "Émile Fabre | French dramatist | Britannica". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
- ^ S2CID 201757099.
- ^ ISBN 0070791694
- ^ Le Figaro (13 April 1917). "Courrier des Théâtres", p. 4 (in French)