Antoine Vitez

Antoine Vitez , born with Paris the December 20th 1930 and died in Paris the April 30th 1990, is a Director of Théâtre and a central figure and influential of the French theater of Après-guerre, in particular for its teaching of the theater. It is also translator of Tchekhov, Vladimir Maïakovski, Mikhaïl Cholokhov.

Actor of formation, it knows difficult beginnings. He fails the Conservatoire higher national of dramatic art of Paris in 1950. Communist militant until 1979 (although attached all his life to the idea even of Communism, it leaves PCF following the invasion of the Afghanistan by the the USSR), it meets Louis Aragon in 1958 and becomes its private secretary of 1960 to 1962. It follows also the courses of theater of Tania Balachova. He also collaborates in the review Bref published by Jean Vilar and in the popular review Théâtre . He begins readings with the radio and doublings of cinema. Its beginnings of director are made with Electra of Sophocle with the house of the culture of Caen in 1966.

The bursting like esthetics

Vitez treats the text like material to be modelled freely. It is this vision which will make Electra a success, that it will thus take again twice in 1971 with " parenthèses" of Yánnis Rítsos and in 1986 with always the same actress, Evelyne Istria, in the title role. Vitez is sensitive to the Russian repertory. That is explained by its formation at the school of the Russian theater - its other pole of interest with the Greek theater. Thus, it assembles seldom played works little or: the baths of Maïakovski in 1967, the dragon of Eugene Schwartz in 1968, the Gull of Tchekhov in 1970.

After this first period, it will choose to turn a certain time to the French repertory, especially Racine, and the German repertory, with Jakob Lenz, Goethe or Brecht. He often plays in nontheatrical places and with elements without any descriptive function. He deploys an esthetics of the " freedom ludique" and of " the association of the idées" , according to Georges Banu. It puts in scene a thought on the part more than reality of the part. Its taste thus goes thus towards the bursting.

Its engagement, inter alia in the formation

Initially professor with the Conservatory National Higher of Dramatic art starting from the re-entry 1968, he becomes director with the Theater of Ivry (created in 1972) then to the National theater of Chaillot as from 1980. Lastly, it is named general administrator Comédie-Française in June 1988, load which it will occupy until his death abruptly which has occurred in 1990.

It puts in scene the traditional and traditional repertory theatrical (Sophocle, Shakespeare, Molière, Marivaux), but it assembles also modern authors, like Paul Claudel or Vladimir Maïakovski, and of the contemporaries like Pierre Guyotat, Jean Métellus and Jean Audureau.

He regards the theater as “a field of force” and claims a " theater élitaire for tous"

Principal collaborators

Settings in scene

1966 in Caen

  • Electra of Sophocle (in its own translation)
  • the Lawsuit of Emile Henry , tragedy-assembly of Antoine Vitez
1967 1968
  • the Dragon of Evgueni Schwarz
1969
  • the Great Investigation of François-Felix Kulpa , melodrama-serial of Xavier Pommeret to the Theater Nanterre-Almond trees
  • the Parade of Loula Anagnostaki to the Theater of the Parisian West
1970
  • the Tutor of J. M. R. Lenz with the Theater of the Parisian West
  • the Gull of Tchekhov
1971 1972 with the Theater of the Districts of Ivry 1973 1974 1975 1976
  • the Ballade of Mister Punch of Eloi Recoing, according to the English tradition of Punch and Judy
1977 1978
  • the School of the women, the Sanctimonious hypocrite, Dom Juan, the Misanthropist of Molière
1979
  • the Meeting of Georges Pompidou with Mao Zedong
  • Dave at the edge of sea of Rene Kalisky with the Comédie-Française
  • the Marriages of Figaro opera of Mozart booklet of Lorenzo Da Ponte
1980
  • Revizor of Gogol
  • Bérénice of Root
1981 with the National theater of Chaillot
  • Faust of Goethe
  • Tomb for five hundred and thousand soldiers according to the book of Pierre Guyotat
  • Britannicus , of Root to the
1982
  • Discussion with Mr. Saïd Hammadi, Algerian workman of Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Hippolyte of Robert Garnier
  • Orfeo opera in five acts and a prolog of Claudio Monteverdi, booklet of Alessandro Striggio
  • the human Voice monodrame of Jean Cocteau
1983 1984
  • the Gull of Tchekhov (in its own translation)
  • Héron of Vassili Axionov
  • the red Scarf " romanopéra" of Alain Badiou on a music of Georges Aperghis
  • Macbeth opera of Made green
1985 1986 1987
  • the Shoe of satin of Paul Claudel
  • Otello opera of Made green
1988 1989 with the Comédie-Française
  • the Insane day or the Marriage of Barber of Beaumarchais
  • Célestine of Fernando de Rojas
  • a transport amorous with Raymond Lepoutre
1990

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