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May 10, 2019 · The best-known and most frequently performed of Anouilh’s many plays, rivaled only by The Lark and Becket, Antigone is certainly one of his strongest efforts, as relevant and resonant today as it was when it first appeared onstage.
Jun 19, 2024 · Jean Anouilh (born June 23, 1910, Bordeaux, France—died Oct. 3, 1987, Lausanne, Switz.) was a playwright who became one of the strongest personalities of the French theatre and achieved an international reputation.
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Active as a dramatist for fully half a century, Jean Anouilh (a-noo-ee) arguably is the best known and most performed French playwright of his generation, his work often straddling (and sometimes...
Jean Anouilh (June 23, 1910 – October 3, 1987) was one of the leading French dramatists of the twentieth century. He was best known for his dramaturgical skill and emphasis on literary craftsmanship.
May 17, 2018 · The French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) was an accomplished craftsman. His plays, from the frivolous and fanciful to the serious, exploit the artificiality of the theater to elucidate his views of the human predicament.
Jul 21, 2016 · Jean Anouilh had to make clever use of language in order for his work to be accepted by Nazi censors during the German occupation of France. Even so, it's an unmistakably bold commentary on the...
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Anouilh is probably best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. He died on October 3, 1987 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
