Additional information: Christian Griffoul´s group aims at demonstrating on the basis of the example of two of its performances - Juha and his Donkey and The City of Children - that it is possible to play without any technical facilities, or in any interior or outdoors. In the play The City of Children, for which the old fortifications of the ancient town of Carcasson and its crooked narrow streets form a natural decoration, the story was made up and is played by children. In the play Juha and his Donkey giant and Javanese stick puppets play together and the performance can again be given anywhere, in a gymnasium, cinema or large public dining room. Our aim has been above all to bring to village children the magic of the theatre and to take them out of their every-day environment, provided by the school and the home.
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Additional information: Dominique Houdart and Jeanne Heuclin, both originally actresses,
in 1973 became acquainted with puppets and this was the beginn -
ing of their extensive collaboration with Marcel Violette, who
is an artist, craftsman, animator, puppet-player and inventor.
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Additional information: Freedom or Death : produced for the first time at Lo Théâtre
de la Carriera.
Freedom or Death, or The History of the French Revolution in
1789, is here seen from the perspective of Provence and not,
ar is usual, from that of Paris. People from the South waver
between their revolutionary inclinations and obedience to the
goverrment which forbids them to speak their minds and parti-
cipate in their culture.
Collaboration between stage director Patrice Bouqueniaux and
painter Michel Strauss, who have already collaborated at the Lo
Téâtre de la Carriera earlier, made it possible to produce, on
the basis of simple decorative elements placed in various po -
sitions , varied realistic environments.
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Additional information: Born in 1928 in Charlevalu-en-Provence. In 1951 - 1952 he held
his first exhibition at Aix-en-Provence at the Gallery Sources
and the Gallery Amis des Arts. Since 1953 he designed the sets
and costumes for 27 theatrical performances /Shakespeare,
Sartre, García Lorca, Chekhov, Molière, Claudel, Ionesco, Gi -
raudoux, etc./. In 1957 he received the Blumenthal Prize. In
1959 he founded, together with friends, the Breuil group. In
the period 1960 - 1967 he exhibited in the Grabowski Gallery
in London, at the Monin Galery in Grenoble, at French House in
Oxford, in Roanne, Edinborough, Bornemouth, Cluny, Breuil, Lons-
-le-Saunier, Beaune, Autun, Dijon and in his studio in Lubéron,
as well as in the Plummer Gallery in Los Angeles, the Varnier
Gallery in Geneva,. in Lourmarin and the Mourgue Gallery in Pa-
ris. In 1958 he organized a group of graphic artists working
in the House of Culture and Rest in Creusot, which produced
hundreds of posters. In 1969 he participated in the forming of
the C.R.A.C.A.P. / a research and professional center for the
visual arts / . In the period 1972 - 1978 he was entrusted with
the organization of the SIGMA 8 exhibition in Bordeaux, which later travelled to a number of French cities and abroad. In
1978 he designed the stage sets and costumes for Beautiful Life
by Jacques Bailliart at the theatre in Soane-et-Loire.
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