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Éric Vigner

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Éric Vigner
Éric Vigner in 2015.
Born (1960-10-27) 27 October 1960 (age 64)
Rennes, France
NationalityFrench
Alma materÉcole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre (ENSATT)
Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (CNSAD), Paris
Occupation(s)Actor, theatre director, scenic designer
AwardsNomination Molière Awards 1996
French-Corean Cultural Prize 2004
Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Éric Vigner (born 27 October 1960, in Rennes, France) is a French stage director, actor and scenic designer.

He directed the Centre Dramatique National Théâtre de Lorient (CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient) in Lorient, from 1996 to 2015.

Early life and education

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Vigner was born in Rennes.

Éric Vigner graduated in visual arts from the University of Brittany[which?], France. He then studied in Paris, at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre (ENSATT) and the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (CNSAD).

Career

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In 1990, he founded his own theater company, Suzanne M. Éric Vigner. In 1996, he was appointed by the French Minister of Culture to direct Brittany's Drama Centre, henceforth called the CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient.

Since 1996, the graphic artists M/M Paris were in charge of the CDDB's visual communication. Besides Vigner's commitment to contemporary playwrights, including Marguerite Duras and Roland Dubillard [es; fr; gl; ht; no], for which he was awarded the honour of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998, Vigner developed a new approach to the French classics – Racine's Bajazet (Comédie-Française, 1995), Corneille's L’Illusion Comique (Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, 1996), Victor Hugo's Marion De Lorme (Théâtre de la Ville, 1999), Molière's L’École des femmes (Comédie-Française, 1999) and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (French-Korea cultural prize 2004) and Shakeapeare's Othello (Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe, 2008).

In October 2010, Vigner founded an international theater academy, "The Academy", which follows the principles of a little democracy and assembles seven young trilingual actors from seven cultural backgrounds – Morocco, Romania, Mali, Belgium, South Korea, Germany, and Israel. They work on classical as well as contemporary forms of writing and present La Place Royale by Pierre Corneille, Guantanamo by Frank Smith and La Faculté by Christophe Honoré.

He has developed international collaborations to last over the years, searching for a genuine mutual cultural transmission. He has directed in different languages and cultural backgrounds: at the National Theater of Korea in Seoul, The Bourgeois Gentleman by Molière and Jean-Baptiste Lully (French-Korean Cultural Prize 2004); twice at the National Theater of Albania, Tirana, 2007,The Barber of Seville by Beaumarchais (Price Festival Bharat Rang Mahotsav, Inde 2011), and 2016, Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo (Festival Theatre National de Bretagne, France 2017); at 7 Stages Theater, Atlanta, 2008, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Bernard-Marie Koltès (U.S. Koltès Project); in India, Gates to India Song based on The Vice Consul and India Song by Marguerite Duras (Festival Bonjour India, Bombay, Calcutta, New-Delhi, 2013).

At the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest, 2016, during Romania's campaign for Unesco's approval of The Wisdom of the Earth sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși, he staged the famous trial from 1928 – Brancusi versus the United States.

Actor

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Theatre productions

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Opera productions

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Scenic designs

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The Academy

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Decorations

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References

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  1. ^ "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres juillet 2015 - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication". www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015.
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