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On Sarah Kane: In Search of a Theatricality Inherent to Language
Dedicated to French and foreign contemporary theatre for the past forty years, legendary French director Claude Régy will discuss his recent work on Sarah Kane’s theatre, including 4.48 Psychose which is being presented at Brooklyn Academy of Music, starring Isabelle Huppert.
Claude Régy is the director of Les Ateliers Contemporains, Paris, founded in 1976. His company is dedicated to the production of contemporary theatre and has received funds from the French Ministry of Culture since 1978. He is one of the first to direct plays by Marguerite Duras (1960) and Nathalie Sarraute (1972). He introduced in France the works of playwrights Edward Bond, Peter Handke, Botho Strauss, Harold Pinter, Gregory Motton, and Jon Fosse, as well as poets Wallace Stevens, Charles Reznikoff, and Henri Meschonnic. He also worked for La Comédie Française and directed operas at the Théâtre du Châtelet and Opéra Bastille. His late works include 4.48 Psychose with Isabelle Huppert by Sarah Kane (2002), Variations sur la mort (2003) by Jon Fosse, and Comme un chant de David, from the Psaumes translated by Henri Meschonnic, with Valérie Dréville (2006). He was professor at the Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique, Paris (1981–86) and received Le Grand Prix National du Théâtre in 1991 and Le Grand Prix des Arts de la Scène de la Ville de Paris in 1994. He is the author of Espaces perdus (1998), L’Ordre des morts (1999), and L’Etat d’incertitude (2002).
6:30 p.m., Monday, October 24, 2005, Martin E. Segal Theatre
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Director Claude Régy, Les Ateliers Contemporains, Paris
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Dedicated to French and foreign contemporary theatre for the past forty years, legendary French director Claude Régy will discuss his recent work on Sarah Kane’s theatre, including 4.48 Psychose which is being presented at Brooklyn Academy of Music, starring Isabelle Huppert.
Claude Régy is the director of Les Ateliers Contemporains, Paris, founded in 1976. His company is dedicated to the production of contemporary theatre and has received funds from the French Ministry of Culture since 1978. He is one of the first to direct plays by Marguerite Duras (1960) and Nathalie Sarraute (1972). He introduced in France the works of playwrights Edward Bond, Peter Handke, Botho Strauss, Harold Pinter, Gregory Motton, and Jon Fosse, as well as poets Wallace Stevens, Charles Reznikoff, and Henri Meschonnic. He also worked for La Comédie Française and directed operas at the Théâtre du Châtelet and Opéra Bastille. His late works include 4.48 Psychose with Isabelle Huppert by Sarah Kane (2002), Variations sur la mort (2003) by Jon Fosse, and Comme un chant de David, from the Psaumes translated by Henri Meschonnic, with Valérie Dréville (2006). He was professor at the Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique, Paris (1981–86) and received Le Grand Prix National du Théâtre in 1991 and Le Grand Prix des Arts de la Scène de la Ville de Paris in 1994. He is the author of Espaces perdus (1998), L’Ordre des morts (1999), and L’Etat d’incertitude (2002).
6:30 p.m., Monday, October 24, 2005, Martin E. Segal Theatre
Res. Code 6429. Free