Since 1967, the Prague Quadrennial 1967, no aesthetic or technical revolution has taken place in the French theatre. However these past four years manifest a strenghtening of the most progressive tendencies. Their pioneers were able to extend the field of their activity thanks to the understanding of producers and directors. The movement was later joined by new stage designers who have not trodden the traditional path. Finally we must not overlook the fact that the building of numerous theatre halls with an optical perspective solution preferred the development or application of a more conform conception to the reconstruction and content of theatre art of not long ago. The French exposition for the Prague Quadrennial had to be conceived so as to correspond with these realities. In order to respond fully we have divided it into three sections: architecture which has been represented in an extent in which its realizations or projects after 1967 corresponded with the general programme given by the Statut of the Prague Quadrennial 1971. The second group is formed by theatre enterprises which by their activities manifest a determinated orientation: the Maisons de la Culture, Centres Dramatiques Nationaux, subsidized ensembles and experimental theatres, i. e. decentralized enterprises which principially aim at the discovery of a new audience; in the third group are represented the main works executed in Paris, in the provinces as well as abroad during the past four years by four French stage designers most sought for by producers: André Acquart, Hubert Monloup, Jacques Noel and Michel Raffaelli. The choice for these three groups was rather liberal — each stage designer or theatre director was free to decide whether he considered himself suitable or unsuitable to be included into the proposed framework and to reserve or not his participation in the Prague Quadrennial 1971. Clarity which should be the result of dividing the exhibition into three groups, must, however, not be at the price of the homogeneity of the basic tendency. All we wish to show are relations which have manifested themselves in France between architects, producers and stage designers.
- Yannis Kokkos
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: (Rintru pa trou tar),
Theatre de la ville
1970
- Hubert Monloup
Additional information: Born in 1932 in Lyon. He studied aesthetics, for a year he studied to become a professor of drawing; he is a painter and architect. Since 1959 he has been a stage designer at the Théatre des Célestins in Lyon. Later he also collaborated with other theatres, such as Théatre Antiques Romains in Lyon, the Comédie de Saint-Etienne, at the Grenier de Toulouse, at the T.N.P. in Paris, the Théatre de la Cité in Villeurbanne, the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in West Berlin and the Städtische Bühne in Frankfurt. He has collaborated with stage directors C. Gentillon in productions of classical drama at the La Comédie de Lyon. Since 1962 he has collaborated with director Armand Gatti, for whose productions of The Chronicle of a Planet, Man Alone and A Song Before Two Electric Chairs he designed the stage sets and costumes and with whom he also made the Cuban film El otro Cristobal. As a stage designer he also collaborated with Roger Blin and Raymond Rouleau, with Agnes Varda on the film Le Bonheur, with René Allio on La vieille Dame indigne and with Christian de Challonges on l'Alliance. For Roger Planchon he designed the sets for such productions as Planchon's L'Infame, Michel Vinaver's Par dessus bord and Moliére's Tartuffe. In 1972 he received the Dussane Prize for his work in the theatre. Besides other exhibitions, he has aalso participated in the Prague Quadrennials in 1967 and 1971.
- Jacques Noël
Additional information: Born in 1924 in Ivry-sur-Seine. He studied at the Ecole Boulle and decorative-arts. He began to work for the theatre in 1944 in Compagnie des Dix /Claude Martin - J.M. Sérreau/. In Paris he participated as a designer in productions of the first plays of S. Beckett, A. Adamov, F. Billetdoux, and R. Dubillard. Since 1949 he has been the stage designer of all of Marcel Marceau's productions and since 1952 he designed the sets for all of E. lonesco's plays. He has collaborated with directors J.-M.Serreau, Roger Blin, Marcel Marceau, Claude Martin, J.-L. Barrault, Claude Régy, Robert Postec, Jacques Mauclair, André Barsacq, Pierre Franck, Jacques Charron, Pierre Dupuy, Jean Negroni, Jean Babilée, Flemming Flindt and for the ballet with Janine Charrat. He has designed stage sets for the foremost private theatres in Paris, as well as for T.N.P. and for Odéon-Théátre de France. Abroad he has been collaborating with theatres in Stratford, London, New York, Las Vegas, Vienna, Zurich, Düsseldorf, Munich, Tel-Aviv and Haifa. He participated in the Prague Quadrennials in 1967 and in 1971.
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: (Jarry),
Elisee Montmartre
1970
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: (The Railway),
Atelier
1967
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Federico García Lorca: (When Five Years Pass),
Maison de la culture Creteil
1969
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Mihail Bulgakov: (The Flight),
Theatre des Amandiers Nanterre
1970
- Michel Raffaelli
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: (The Battle of Lobositz),
TEP
1969
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: (Urfaust),
Schauspielerhaus
1970
- Jacques Rapp
Additional information: Born in 1930 in Strasbourg. He is the chief stage designer of the Opera in Lyon. He also cooperates with various French and foreign theatres. He exhibited at the PQ in 1967 (within the framework of the exposition which was awarded the main Prize — the Golden Triga), 1971 and in 1975.
Exhibiting works
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: (Ballet Chamber),
Opera de Lyon
1970
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Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill: (Mahagonny),
Opera de Lyon
1970
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Igor Stravinsky: (Rake´s Progress),
Opera de Lyon
1971
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: (Wozzeck),
Opera de Lyon
1970
- André Acquart
Continuing collaboration with directors: Jean-Marie Serreau, Roger Blin, Jean Vilar ,Roger Planchon,Gabriel Garran
Additional information: Born 1922 in Vincennes, stage designer and painter, specialized in mural design. Graduate from the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Algiers. His first vvork for tne tlheatre were sets for J. Anouilh´s Thieves' Carnival in Algiers is 1950. Noteworthy among his work are sets for Geneťs The Blacks and Screens produced by R. Blin, for Peter Weiss' Marat-Sade produced by Jean Tasso, for Shakespeare's Macbeth produced by G. Rétoré, for Troilus and Cressida produced by R. Planchon, for Bizeťs Carmen, A. Césaire's A Season in Congo, Sartre's The Devil and the Good Lord in the production of G. Wilson, for Corneille's Surēre produced by H. Gignoux, and for a large number of plays produced at the Théâtre de Lutēce, Théatre Sarah Bernhardt, Théâtre de l'Est Parisien, Théâtre de la Cité de Villeurbanne, Odéon-Théâtre de France, Théâtre National Populaire, the Strassbourg National Théâtre, the theatre in Essen, Amsterdam and elsewhere.
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Exhibiting works
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: (The Rakes),
1971
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: (Carmen),
1969
- Pierre Bobillot
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- Sonia Delaunay
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- Roland Deville
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- Dominique Dupuy
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- Claude Engelbach
Additional information: Born in 1931 in Paris. After studying under Leon Sishia and Felix Labisse he worked in the Théatre Quotidien in Marseille, especially on plays by contemporary authors. He has collaborated with a number of stage directors, such as Robert Postec, Roland Monod, Jean-Pierre Miquel, Marcel Bluwal, Antoine Vitez and Armand Gatti, as well as with others, within the framework of contemporary endeavours to decentralize theatrical cooperation. Since 1970 he has been organising exhibitions of modern art in the House of Culture in Amiens. He teaches at the Institute of Theatrical Studies of the University of Paris and at the University of Amiens.
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- Bernard Floriet
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- Étienne Hajdu
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- Yves Joulié
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- Piotr Kowalsky
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- Pierre Philippe
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- Georges Richar
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- Jesus-Raphael Soto
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- Roger Stoffel
Additional information: A stage designer, who works above all for ballet. His work is characterized by the seeking of new materials and objects, which he sets in motion. He is especially interested in teaching and does so in a special group at the Ballets Modernes de Paris and at the Institute of Techniques in Contemporary Dance. He has participated in a number of International stage design exhibitions and festivals of contemporary dance.
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- Beatrice Tanaka
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Exhibiting works
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: (Strange Set at the Circus Basile),
Meudon
1969
- Jo Tréhard
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- William Underdown
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: (The Devotion of the Cross),
Maison de la Culture
1970
