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Lugné-Poe
Lugné-Poe in Figures contemporaines tirées de l’Album Mariani. Etching c. 1903.
Born
Aurélien Marie Lugné

(1869-12-27)27 December 1869
Paris, France
Died19 June 1940(1940-06-19) (aged 70)
Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France
EducationParis Conservatoire (1889–1891)
Known forTheatre Director, Designer
MovementSymbolism
SpouseSuzanne Desprès
AwardsOfficier, Lègion d'Honneur

Aurélien-Marie Lugné[1] (27 December 1869 – 19 June 1940), known by his stage-name and pen name Lugné-Poe,[2] was a French actor, theatre director, and scenic designer best known for his work at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre,[3] one of the first theatrical venues in France to provide a home for the artists of the symbolist movement at the end of the nineteenth century.[4] Most notably, Lugné-Poe introduced French audiences to the Scandinavian playwrights August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen.[5]

Life and career

At age nineteen he entered the Paris Conservatoire and joined the Théâtre Libre, a private naturalist theatre run by André Antoine. He adopted the stage name Lugné-Poe in homage to Edgar Allan Poe,[3] to whom he sometimes claimed to be distantly related.[6]

He organized a group of painters known as The Nabis, publicizing their work in a series of articles.[6]

He created La Maison de l'Œuvre, also known as Le Théâtre de l'Œuvre, a private group of spectators and experimental theatre that went against the naturalist movement and contributed to the symbolist movement in theatre and to the discovery of new playwrights.[citation needed]

In 1895, Jakub Grein and the Independent Theatre Society invited Lugné-Poe and his troupe to present a season of Ibsen's Rosmersholm, The Master Builder, and Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist L'Intruse and Pelléas and Mélisande in London.[7]

Works

Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens
Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
  • 1893: Rosmersholm (Henrik Ibsen, translated by Prozor)
  • 1893: Un Ennemi du peuple (Henrik Ibsen, translated by Chennevière and Johansen)
  • 1893: Ames solitaires (Gerhart Hauptmann, translated by Cohen)
  • 1894: L'Araignée de cristal (Rachilde)
  • 1894: Au-dessus des forces humaines (Björnstjerne-Björnson, translated by Prozor)
  • 1894: Une Nuit d'avril à Céos (Trarieux)
  • 1894: L'Image (Beaubourg)
  • 1894: Solness le construsteur (Henrik Ibsen, translated by Prozor)
Nouveau-Théâtre
Comédie-Parisienne
Théâtre du Ménus-Plaisirs
  • 1895: L'École de l'idéal (Vérola)
  • 1895: Le Petit Eyolf (Henrik Ibsen, translated by Prozor)
  • 1895: Le Volant (Paul Claudel)
Salle de Trianon, Paris
  • 1906: Madame la marquise (Sutro)
  • 1906: Le Troisième Couvert (Savoir)
  • 1906: Leurs Soucis (Bahr)
Théâtre Marigny
Théâtre Grévin
  • 1907: Une Aventure de Frédérick Lemaître (Basset)
  • 1907: Placide (Séverin-Malfayde and Dolley)
  • 1907: Zénaïde ou les caprices du destin (Delorme and Gally)
Théâtre Fémina
Théâtre Antoine
Théâtre du Palais-Royal
  • 1912: La Dernière Heure (Frappa)
  • 1912: Grégoire (Falk)
  • 1912: Morituri (Prozor)
Théâtre Malakoff, Paris
Théâtre de l'Œuvre, Cité Monthiers
Other Paris Theatres
  • 1895: Carmosine (Musset), Ministère du Commerce
  • 1896: Le Grand Galeoto (Echegaray), home of Ruth Rattazzi
  • 1898: Mesure pour mesure (William Shakespeare), Cirque d'été
  • 1899: Noblesse de la terre (Faramond), Théâtre de la Renaissance
  • 1899: Un Ennemi du peuple (Henrik Ibsen, translated by Chennevière and Johansen), Théâtre de la Renaissance
  • 1900: Monsieur Bonnet (Faramond), Théâtre du Gymnase
  • 1911: Le Philanthrope ou la Maison des amours (Bouvelet), Théâtre Réjane
  • 1913: Le Baladin du monde occidental (Synge, translated by Bourgeois), Salle Berlioz

References

  1. ^ "Lugné-Poe" (in French). Encyclopædia Universalis Online. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
  2. ^ "Lugné-Poe" (in French). Dictionnaire Larousse Online. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
  3. ^ a b "The Théâtre de l'Œuvre". Musée d'Orsay Online. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
  4. ^ Braun, Edward (1982). "The Symbolist Theatre." in The Director and the Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski. New York: Holmes & Meier. ISBN 0841908001.
  5. ^ Shaw, George Bernard (1932). Our Theatres in the Nineties. London: Constable & Co. ISBN 140674302X.
  6. ^ a b Knapp, Bettina (1975). Maurice Maeterlinck. Boston: Twayne. pp. 67. ISBN 0805725628.
  7. ^ Styan, J. Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Realism and Naturalism pp. 55–57 (Cambridge University Press, 1981) ISBN 0-521-29628-5.
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