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Jean-Luc Lagarce

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Jean-Luc Lagarce
Born(1957-02-14)14 February 1957
Héricourt, Haute-Saône, France
Died30 September 1995(1995-09-30) (aged 38)
14th arrondissement, Paris
Occupationplaywright, theatre director
NationalityFrench
Period1970s-1990s
Notable worksJuste la fin du monde

Jean-Luc Lagarce (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ lyk laɡaʁs]; 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 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] This led to many productions overseas, such as the Brazilian version of Music-Hall by Luiz Päetow, which won the Theatre Shell Award in 2010.[4]

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,[5] which won the Grand Prix and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.[6] Le pays lointain was produced at theatre Odeon, Paris in 2019.

Works

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Plays

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  • 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

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  • Trois récits, 1994, a collection of three short stories

Other fiction

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  • Quichotte, 1989, libretto for a jazz opera by Mike Westbrook[7]
  • Retour à l'automne, screenplay cowritten with Gérard Bouysse

Non-fiction

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Jean-Luc Lagarce" Archived 1 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Embassy of France in the United States, 5 March 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e Glin, Gaëlle. "LAGARCE JEAN-LUC (1957-1995)". Encyclopedia Universalis (in French). Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  3. ^ Brun, Catherine (2009). "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): 183. doi:10.3917/rhlf.091.0183..
  4. ^ "Music Hall: the steep path of an artist". magazine review in Portuguese.
  5. ^ ""Juste la fin du monde", Xavier Dolan sublime Jean-Luc Lagarce" (in French). Radio France Internationale. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Cannes Film Festival Winners: Palme d'Or To Ken Loach's 'I, Daniel Blake'". Deadline. 22 May 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  7. ^ 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.