Jean-Luc Lagarce
Jean-Luc Lagarce | |
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Born | Héricourt, Haute-Saône, France | 14 February 1957
Died | 30 September 1995 14th arrondissement, Paris | (aged 38)
Occupation | playwright, theatre director |
Nationality | French |
Period | 1970s-1990s |
Notable works | Juste la fin du monde |
Jean-Luc Lagarce (14 February 1957 – 30 September 1995) was a French actor, theatre director and playwright.[1] Although only moderately successful during his lifetime, since his death he has become one of the most widely-produced contemporary French playwrights.[2]
Born in
Publishing 25 plays during his lifetime,
In 2015, film director Xavier Dolan adapted Lagarce's Juste la fin du monde into the film It's Only the End of the World,[5] which won the Grand Prix and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.[6] Le pays lointain was produced at theatre Odeon, Paris in 2019.
Works
Plays
- La bonne de chez Ducatel, 1977
- Erreur de construction, 1977
- Carthage, encore, 1978
- La Place de l'autre , 1979
- Voyage de Madame Knipper vers la Prusse Orientale, 1980
- Ici ou ailleurs, 1981
- Les Serviteurs, 1981
- Noce, 1982
- Vagues souvenirs de l'année de la peste, 1982
- Hollywood, 1983
- Histoire d'amour (repérages), 1983
- Retour à la citadelle, 1984
- Les Orphelins, 1984
- De Saxe, roman, 1985
- La Photographie, 1986
- Derniers remords avant l'oubli, 1987
- Les Solitaires intempestifs, 1987
- Music-hall, 1988
- Les Prétendants, 1989
- Juste la fin du monde, 1990
- Histoire d'amour (derniers chapitres), 1990
- Les règles du savoir-vivre dans la société moderne, 1993
- Nous, les héros, 1993
- Nous, les héros (version sans le père), 1993
- J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne, 1994
- Le Pays lointain, 1995
Prose
- Trois récits, 1994, a collection of three short stories
Other fiction
- Quichotte, 1989, libretto for a jazz opera by Mike Westbrook[7]
- Retour à l'automne, screenplay cowritten with Gérard Bouysse
Non-fiction
- Théâtre et Pouvoir en Occident, a study of how dramatists have contended with political power, from Ancient Greece to the middle of the twentieth century
- Journal, volume 1: 1977–1990, volume 2: 1990–1995
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Jean-Luc Lagarce" Archived 1 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Embassy of France in the United States, 5 March 2015.
- ^ Encyclopedia Universalis(in French). Retrieved 23 May 2016.
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- ^ "Music Hall: the steep path of an artist". magazine review in Portuguese.
- ^ ""Juste la fin du monde", Xavier Dolan sublime Jean-Luc Lagarce" (in French). Radio France Internationale. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ^ "Cannes Film Festival Winners: Palme d'Or To Ken Loach's 'I, Daniel Blake'". Deadline. 22 May 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
- ^ Capron, Stéphane (27 May 2012). "L'ensemble Justiniana fête ses 30 ans avec l'opéra-jazz Quichotte de Lagarce" (in French). sceneweb. Retrieved 23 May 2016.