Jean-Luc Lagarce

Jean-Luc Lagarce
Born 14 February 1957
Héricourt, Haute-Saône
Died 30 September 1995
Occupation playwright, theatre director
Nationality French
Period 1970s-1990s
Notable works Juste la fin du monde

Jean-Luc Lagarce (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 the 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]

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,[4] which won the Grand Prix and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.[5]

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Plays

Prose

Other fiction

Non-fiction

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Jean-Luc Lagarce". Embassy of France in the United States, 5 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Glin, Gaëlle. "LAGARCE JEAN-LUC (1957-1995)". Encyclopedia Universalis (in French). Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  3. "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). doi:10.3917/rhlf.091.0183..
  4. "«Juste la fin du monde», Xavier Dolan sublime Jean-Luc Lagarce" (in French). Radio France Internationale. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
  5. "Cannes Film Festival Winners: Palme d'Or To Ken Loach's 'I, Daniel Blake'". Deadline. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  6. 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.
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