Antoine Vitez

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Antoine Vitez
Paris, France
Died30 April 1990 (aged 59)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
EducationTania Balachova
Known forTheatre director, stage director

Antoine Vitez (French pronunciation:

Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Mikhail Sholokhov
.

Early life

Antoine Vitez was born in Paris and trained to be an actor, finding his first acting job at the age of 19 in Ils attendent Lefty at the Théâtre Maubel. He failed to enter the

National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris and became a Communist activist, which he continued until 1979, when he left the Communist Party following the invasion of Afghanistan
by the USSR.

He met Louis Aragon in 1958 and became his private secretary from 1960 to 1962. He worked in the theater Balachova Tania, and wrote reviews published by Jean Vilar in the magazine Théâtre populaire. Vitez also found work reading on the radio and voice-dubbing in films. He had his first opportunity as director with Sophocles' Electra at the Maison de la Culture de Caen in 1966.

Career

Vitez' production of Electra was successful and he continued directing with

Marivaux, Molière, Jean Racine, Paul Claudel, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Pierre Guyotat, Jean Metellus and Jean Audureau
.

Vitez became a professor at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in 1968, and in 1972 he founded the Théâtre des Quartiers d'Ivry. In the same year, he founded the Ateliers d'Ivry workshop, where amateurs and professionals could share a common theatrical practice. He became director at the Chaillot National Theatre in 1981, and was appointed deputy head of the

Comédie Française in June 1988, a post he held until his sudden death in Paris in 1990.[1] In 1978, Vitez' workshop sessions were recorded by film-maker Maria Koleva, who made five films on different workshop sessions.[2]

Aesthetic

Vitez often presented his plays in locations with non-theatrical elements and without any descriptive function, employing an aesthetic of "free play" and "association of ideas," according to Georges Banu. Vitez' work required thought on the part of the audience, more than the reality of a set. He saw the theater as a "force field" and demanded an "elitist theater for all." He defended the great classical texts as "sunken galleons," works that were remote, archaic and mythological.

Legacy

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1966 The War Is Over Un employé Pan-am / Pan-Am Employee
1969 My Night at Maud's Vidal
1970 La nuit bulgare
1970 The Confession Un ami communiste
1976 Les Ambassadeurs
1976 Antoine Vitez s'amuse avec Claudel et Brecht Himself
1978 The Green Room Bishop's secretary
1978 Le barbouillé ou la mort gaie Le professeur
1979 Écoute voir Le délégue de la secte
1979 Je parle d'amour Le comédien de Tartuffe
1989 Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre Le ministre de l'intérieur Léon Martinaud-Déplat (final film role)
1991 Paroles tues ou Aimer en étrangère à Paris Himself

References

  1. ^ "Antoine Vitez Is Dead; Theater Director, 59". The New York Times. 1 May 1990. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
  2. ^ Theatre quarterly: Volume 10. 1980. p. 398.
  3. ^ "Université de Provence | Aix-Marseille 1". Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  4. ^ [1] [dead link]
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