Romain Weingarten
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Romain Weingarten
Weingarten, Romain (b. 1926). French playwright. His plays are idiosyncratic but are broadly situated in the post-absurdist current of experimental verbal theatre. In inspiration perhaps closer to Surrealism than to the Absurd, they explore an immaterial world of feelings and fantasy, and have a strong poetic charge. His first play, Akara, set inside the brain of a woman and representing a nightmare, caused a sensation in 1948 when it won the Prix des Jeunes Compagnies. His greatest success, however, and the play for which he is chiefly remembered, is L'Été (1966). Viewing adult life through the eyes of two cats and two children, it has a whimsical charm which won many admirers.
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Romain Weingarten
Romain Weingarten (5 December 1926—13 July 2006) is a French playwright.
He was born in Paris, and grew up in Brittany and Château-Thierry. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he was strongly influenced by the work of Antonin Artaud, to whom he dedicated his first play, "Akara". Later though Weingarten rejected the label of "Theatre of the Absurd" sometimes attached to his work, and claimed an affiliation with the Surrealists and Roger Vitrac, preferring to describe his work as "poetic". In 1998 he received "le Prix du Théâtre" from the Académie française. Weingarten died of old age, according to his family, at Challans, Vendée, and was buried in Mauron in Morbihan.
Bibliography
- Akara (1948)
- Les Nourrices (The Nurses) (1961)
- L'Été (Summer) (1966)
- Alice dans les jardins du Luxembourg (Alice in the Gardens of Luxembourg) (1970)
- Comme la pierre (Like Stone) (1970, at the Comédie-Française)
- La Mandore (Mandora) (1973)
- Neige (Snow) (1979)
- La Mort d’Auguste (The Death of Auguste) (1982).
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