Roger Planchon , born the September 12th 1931 with Saint-Chamond (the Loire), is a Dramaturge, Director, and Cinéaste French.

Biography

Roger Planchon passes his childhood to Ardeche, and this rural origin will inspire many its parts, like the Handing-over. The rural life is a subject which often returns in its writings.

Roger Planchon begins on scene in 1949 after having gained a contest of Théâtre Amateur. In 1952, it creates the Théâtre of the Comedy.

Director of Theater of City of Villeurbanne since 1957 (theater which becomes in 1972 the popular National theater), it is an important figure of theatrical decentralization.

Roger Planchon put in scene Brecht, Molière, Shakespeare, of creations of contemporary authors, Arthur Adamov to Michel Vinaver, but also opened the NPT with Patrice Chéreau, then in Georges Lavaudant.

With the Cinéma it carried out George Dandin according to Molière, Louis, child king (on Louis XIV) and a Lautrec .

It has inspired for 50 years of large directors like Rey, Patrice Chéreau. The settings in scenes of Roger Planchon are before a a whole history of place. Its theater is critical and popular.

Since 1950, Roger Planchon puts in scene and plays in his parts.

He passes from the plays burlesques of Boots and assembled collets, with the adventures of Artagnan and with the childhood of king Henry. He carried out, in all his work, a rich person reflection on the Histoire and the way in which she strikes.

He wants to build his own theater. Its living conditions are hard.

He builds all the same a theater, the theater of the comedy thanks to the State grants (the ministry gives a subsidy) and city. He builds a room of experimentation (reference to the theater of the hill, theater of left bank), he test to be most inventive possible. He created 18 settings in scenes and carries out 3200 representations.

He plays of the parody, mime between 1950 and 1957. He assembles 23 spectacles according to the parts of Shakespeare, Calderon.

In 1957, he sees himself entrusting the theater of Villeurbanne which names the theater of the working city. He obtains the statute of permanent troop in 1959 and becomes Théâtre of the City in 1960.

He becomes playwright and works out a critical reflection on works. He inaugurates a true debate on the part which the theater plays and must exploit in the company, the bond between individual and collective destiny.

He turns then to a popular theater. For him the Théâtre is the best means of carrying out popular actions while making discover with the people of the traditional ones.

It meets Bertolt Brecht in 1954.

In 1956, it makes a setting in scene almost integral of Large-fear and misery of Third Reich . It develops what for him realism is.

The theater of the comedy knows a great deficit. Planchon calls upon the tutorat so that its continuous theater to exist. He asks the assistance to the mayor who gives him a subsidy of 10 million to start again the troop of the theater of the comedy. He goes up then to Paris and assembles Paolo, Paoli d' Arthur Adamov. This part is a frivolous comedy which finishes 4heures in tragedy later.

In 1962 it assembles Tartuffe of Molière and the handing-over.

In 1972, Duhamel offers the popular label of National theater to him. Indeed, the theater of the city becomes the popular national theater. Planchon takes of it the direction, which it shares with Robert Gilbert and Patrice Chéreau. Then with Georges Lavaudant, as from 1981. It adapts popular works and directs the NPT until 1981.

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