Cartoucherie de vincennes ariane mnouchkine biography
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Théâtre du Soleil
French theatre company created in 1964 by Ariane Mnouchkine
Le Théâtre du Soleil (French:[ləteɑtʁdysɔlɛj], lit.
"The Theater of the Sun") is a Parisianavant-garde stage ensemble founded by Ariane Mnouchkine, Philippe Léotard and fellow students of the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in 1964 as a collective of theatre artists.
Le Théâtre du Soleil is located at La Cartoucherie, a former munitions factory in the Vincennes area of eastern Paris.
Cartoucherie de vincennes ariane mnouchkine biography
The company uses physical theatre and improvisation.
Sociohistorical context
The Theatre du Soleil was founded as a theatre collective in 1964, in the midst of the Cold War.[1] In 1965, Charles de Gaulle was re-elected President of France in the first election with a direct popular vote for the office.
In 1968, a labor strike in France involved 11 million workers, students, and far-left politicians.[1] Mnouchkine, a theatre student,[2] started Le Theatre du S