Jean-Luc Lagarce
| Jean-Luc Lagarce | |
|---|---|
| Born |
14 February 1957 Héricourt, Haute-Saône |
| Died | 30 September 1995 |
| Occupation | playwright, theatre director |
| Nationality | French |
| Period | 1970s-1990s |
| Notable works | Juste la fin du monde |
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 the 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]
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,[4] which won the Grand Prix and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.[5]
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[6]
- 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
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Jean-Luc Lagarce". Embassy of France in the United States, 5 March 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Glin, Gaëlle. "LAGARCE JEAN-LUC (1957-1995)". Encyclopedia Universalis (in French). Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ↑ "Jean-Luc Lagarce et la poétique du détour: l'exemple de Juste la fin du monde". Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France (in French). 109 (2009/1). doi:10.3917/rhlf.091.0183..
- ↑ "«Juste la fin du monde», Xavier Dolan sublime Jean-Luc Lagarce" (in French). Radio France Internationale. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ↑ "Cannes Film Festival Winners: Palme d'Or To Ken Loach's 'I, Daniel Blake'". Deadline. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
- ↑ Capron, Stéphane (27 May 2012). "L'ensemble Justiniana fête ses 30 ans avec l'opéra-jazz Quichotte de Lagarce" (in French). sceneweb. Retrieved 23 May 2016.