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Dullin, Charles
Dullin, Charles (1885–1949), French actor and producer, a pupil of Gémier, who, after some appearances in melodrama, joined Copeau when he first opened the Vieux-Colombier. In 1919 Dullin formed his own company and took it on a long provincial tour. Back in Paris, confronted by many difficulties and always short of money, he finally succeeded in establishing the company in the Théâtre de l'Atelier, a suburban playhouse built in 1822 and used mainly for melodramas and vaudevilles. It had become a cinema in 1914, but after Dullin took it over in 1922 it soon gained a reputation as one of the outstanding experimental theatres of Paris. The plays produced there included the classics of France, the comedies of Aristophanes, translations of famous foreign plays, among them Calderón's La vida es sueño (1922), Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Pirandello for the first time in France, and such new French plays as Cocteau's Antigone (also 1922) and the works of Achard and Romains. Himself an excellent actor, Dullin ran a school of acting connected with his theatre, and in 1936 was invited to become one of the directors at the Comédie-Française. During the occupation of France he toured the unoccupied zone with Molière's L'Avare, and in 1943 he was responsible for the first production of Sartre's Les Mouches.
André Barsacq succeeded Dullin at the Atelier after the war, moving in with his own company and, in spite of growing financial difficulties, upholding the theatre's reputation. After Barsacq's death in 1973 it was managed by his son André-Alexis, who in 1974 handed over to Pierre Franck. |
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Dullin, Charles." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Dullin, Charles." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-DullinCharles.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Dullin, Charles." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-DullinCharles.html |
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Charles Dullin
Charles Dullin , 1885–1949, French actor, producer, and director. Dullin was an outstanding member of Copeau's Théâtre du Vieux Colombier. He organized and toured with his own group before opening the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris in 1921. There, among other experimental plays, he introduced the work of Pirandello to the French public. |
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"Charles Dullin." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Charles Dullin." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Dullin-C.html "Charles Dullin." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Dullin-C.html |
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