Jean-Luc Lagarce Explained
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 Héricourt, Haute-Saône,[2] he was educated at the Université de Besançon.[2] He was a cofounder of the Théâtre de La Roulotte in 1978,[1] directing productions of playwrights such as Pierre de Marivaux, Eugène Marin Labiche and Eugène Ionesco before beginning to stage his own plays.[1] Some of his early plays were criticized as derivative of Ionesco or Samuel Beckett.[2] Although some of his plays were published by Théâtre Ouvert or recorded as radio dramas, only a few of them were ever staged during his lifetime.[1]
Publishing 25 plays during his lifetime,[1] he died of AIDS in 1995.[1] He also published a volume of short stories, wrote an opera libretto and a film screenplay, and cofounded the publishing company Les Solitaires intempestifs.[3] He was rediscovered by critics after his death,[1] becoming more widely recognized as one of the most important modern French playwrights.[2] This led to many productions overseas, such as the Brazilian version of Music-Hall by Luiz Päetow, which won the Theatre Shell Award in 2010.[4]
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
Notes and References
- http://frenchculture.org/visual-and-performing-arts/profiles/jean-luc-lagarce "Jean-Luc Lagarce"
- Web site: LAGARCE JEAN-LUC (1957-1995) . . 23 May 2016. fr . Gaëlle . Glin.
- Jean-Luc Lagarce et la poétique du détour: l'exemple de Juste la fin du monde . Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France . 2009 . 2009/1 . 109 . fr . 10.3917/rhlf.091.0183. Brun . Catherine . 183 . .
- Web site: Music Hall: the steep path of an artist. magazine review in Portuguese.
- News: "Juste la fin du monde", Xavier Dolan sublime Jean-Luc Lagarce . Radio France Internationale . 19 May 2016 . 23 May 2016. fr.
- Web site: Cannes Film Festival Winners: Palme d'Or To Ken Loach's 'I, Daniel Blake' . 22 May 2016 . Deadline. 22 May 2016 .
- News: Capron. Stéphane. L'ensemble Justiniana fête ses 30 ans avec l'opéra-jazz Quichotte de Lagarce. sceneweb. 27 May 2012 . 23 May 2016. fr.