Simone Benmussa

Simone Benmussa , Director, Playwright and writer French, born with Tunis in 1931 and deceased with Paris in 2001. It made its studies in Paris: Sciences Po and in the Sorbonne (philosophy). Impassioned theater, it becomes literary Conseillère of the Company Jean-Louis Barrault - Madeleine Renaud. From 1957 it becomes the Editor association of the Renaud-Barrault Books. While directing, since the Odéon-Theater of France, the Culture section and the Books of the Renaud-Barrault Company, it realizes, as from 1976, of the spectacles in a policy of research and creations. It assembled many spectacles to Paris (in particular with Juliet Berto, Sami Frey, Roland Bertin, Aurore Clement, Arielle Dombasle, Jean-François Balmer, Cyril Atanassof), New York (in particular with Glenn Close), London (with Susannah York and Susan Hampshire), Barcelona (with Jose Maria Flotats and Juanjo Puigcorbé), Rome (with Maddalena Crippa) or Dublin. It has creates (world creation) " For one yes or a non" of Nathalie Sarraute in New York, then creation in Paris (with Sami Frey and Jean-François Balmer with the Theater of the Roundabout) and Barcelona (price of best put in scene, the best decoration, best interpretation). It also has creates " Freshwater" of Virginia Woolf with in particular Eugene Ionesco, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Jean-Paul Aron, Joyce Mansour, Viviane Forrester, Alain Jouffroy, Michel Deguy, Florence Delay, Guy Dumur, Tom Bishop, Erika Kralik. This spectacle was creates in Paris with the Theater of the Roundabout for Amnesty International, then was the subject of a round in London, New York and Spoleto. S.B. in scene exposure-spectacles at the Museum of Decorative Arts " put; The Crossing of time perdu" , with the Museum Carnavalet " The secret Opera of Maria Callas" (1979) and " Mozart with Paris" (1991), " Maria Fixed, a woman, a voice, a mythe" with the Paris, Town hall. Several studies on the work of Simone Benmussa are currently prepared in the United States and of the seminars devoted to its work take place in the Universities.

Simone Benmussa also carried out a film, Portrait of Nathalie Sarraute , with Juliet Berto and Erika Kralik, presented within the framework of Perspective of the French Cinema to the Cannes festival 1978.

Its personal records are deposited with the National library of France (Department of the Performing arts). The funds contains correspondence, manuscripts, costumes and part of its personal library.

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