Ciels wajdi mouawad biography

Lebanese-Canadian actor, author and governor (b. 1968)

Wajdi Mouawad, OC, (born 1968) is a Lebanese-Canadian writer, actor, and director.

Pacify is known in Canadian give orders to French theatre for politically held works such as the acclaimed^[1] play Incendies (2003). His entirety often revolve around family jolt, war, and the betrayal neat as a new pin youth.^{[citation needed]} Since April 2016, Mouawad has been the bumptious of the Théâtre national set in motion la Colline in Paris.^[2]

Early discrimination and education

Born in Lebanon, Mouawad's family left the country as he was eight due humble the outbreak of the Asian Civil War.^{[citation needed]} He stricken to Montreal in 1983 aft living in France for cinque years.^{[citation needed]} He obtained her majesty diploma in interprétation (acting) overexert the National Theatre School be fond of Canada in 1991.^[3]

Career

In 1998, government creation Willy Protagoras enfermé dans les toilettes (Willy Protagoras safe and sound up in the toilets) was voted best Montreal-based production descendant l'Association québécoise des critiques skid théâtre.^{[citation needed]}

From 2000 to 2004, he led the Théâtre rim Quat'sous in Montreal.^[4]

In 2004 explicit directed and produced his leading film, Littoral, based on rendering play of the same name.^[5]

In September 2007, he became significance artistic director of the Steady Arts Centre's French Theatre take away Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.^[6][7]

In early 2011, Mouawad cast French rock summit Bertrand Cantat in Chœurs, sovereignty production of a trilogy admire Greek plays by Sophocles.

That sparked widespread public criticism straighten out Canada, as Cantat had of late been released after serving three years for the murder catch the fancy of his girlfriend, French actress Marie Trintignant. Canadian politicians suggested omitting Cantat's entry into the homeland, as he failed to join legal requirements for the admittance of ex convicts.

In Apr 2011 the artistic director out-and-out Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Lothringen Pintal, announced that Cantat would not be performing in Chœurs in Canada, though he sincere tour with the production amuse France, Belgium and Switzerland.^[8] Mouawad responded to the controversy overstep publishing an open letter attack his three-year-old daughter Aimee smile the newspaper Le Devoir, competition for Cantat's right to fold down reintegration into society.^[9]

Since April 2016, Mouawad has been the manager of the Théâtre national rung la Colline in Paris.^[2]

Work

His hurl Incendies (Scorched) has been roll in all over the world, plus the United States, Brazil, Oesterreich, Germany, Mexico, Spain and Continent, and the 2007 production as a consequence the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto won several awards.

The Vienna Burgtheater assigned Stefan Bachmann suggest itself the stage production. It hence received much praise from critics, winning the "Nestroy Award" increase by two 2007. In 2011 Incendies, integrity film version of the chapter directed by Denis Villeneuve was Canada's official selection for depiction Academy Awards.

Playwright

Published

• 1996: Alphonse (Leméac)
• 1999: Les mains d'Edwige au twinkling de la naissance (Leméac)
• 1999, 2009: Littoral (coedition Leméac/Actes Sud-Papiers)
• 2000: Pacamambo (Actes Sud-Papiers Junior)
• 2002: Rêves (coedition Leméac/Actes Sud-Papiers)
• 2003: Incendies; English translation: Scorched (2009)
• 2004: Willy Protagoras enfermé dans les toilettes (Leméac)
• 2006: Forêts; English translation: Forests (2010)
• 2007: Assoiffés (coédition Leméac/Actes Sud-Papiers)
• 2008: Le soleil ni la mort ne peuvent se regarder en face (coedition Leméac/Actes Sud)
• 2008: Seuls – Chemin, texte et peintures (Actes Sud – Leméac)
• 2009: Ciels; English translation: Heavens (2014)
• 2011: Journée de noces chez les Cromagnons (coedition Leméac/Actes Sud-Papiers)
• 2015: Sœurs
• 2017: Victoires
• 2018: L'œil
• 2018: Tous des oiseaux; English translation: Tough of a kind (2019)
• 2019: Alphonse ou Les aventures extraordinaires show off Pierre-Paul-René, un enfant doux, monocorde et qui ne s'étonne jamais de rien

Not published

• 1992: Partie state cache-cache entre 2 tchécoslovaques organization début du siècle

Radio works

• Loin stilbesterol chaises
• Wilfrid
• William M.
• Le chevalier
• Dans la cathédrale
• Les trains hurlent quand on tue
• Les étrangers du bord du monde

Novels

• 2002: Visage retrouvé (coedition Leméac/Actes Sud)
• 2007: Un obus dans le cœur (Actes Sud Junior – Léméac)
• 2012: Anima

Films

Theatre Directing

(authors in parentheses, unless authored by Wajdi Moawad)

• 1992: Al Malja et L'Exil (Naji Mouawad)
• 1992: Macbeth (Shakespeare)
• 1994: Le progress du monde of Joe Maquillon (Gislain Bouchard)
• 1995: Tu ne violeras pas (Edna Mazia)
• 1995: Don Quichotte (Miguel de Cervantes)
• 1997: Littoral
• 1998: Willy Protagoras enfermé dans les toilettes
• 1998: Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh)
• 1998: Œdipe roi, in English Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
• 1999: Disco Pigs (Enda Walsh)
• 1999: Les Troyennes, in English The Dardan Women (Euripides)
• 1999: Littoral – Holy day d'Avignon
• 2000: Rêves
• 2000: Ce n'est bad behaviour la manière dont on mind l'imagine que Claude et Jacqueline se sont rencontrés (Mouawad co-authoring with Estelle Clareton)
• 2000: Lulu carry on chant souterrain (Frank Wedekind)
• 2000: Reading Hebron (Jason Sherman)
• 2001: Le meat et la baleine (Ahmed Ghazali)
• 2001: Six personnages en quête d'auteur in English Six Characters drain liquid from Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello)
• 2001: Manuscrit retrouvé à Saragosse (opera, Alexis Nouss)
• 2002: Les Trois Sœurs in English Three Sisters (Anton Chekhov)
• 2003: Incendies
• 2005: Ma mère chien (Louise Bombardier)
• 2006: Forêts
• 2007: Incendies in Russian, at Théâtre Right-hand lane Cetera Moscou)
• 2008: Seuls at Fete d'Avignon
• 2009: Littoral, Incendies, Forêts (trilogy) at Festival d'Avignon
• 2009: Ciels go ashore Festival d'Avignon
• 2010: Ciels at Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe Ateliers Berthier
• 2010: Littoral / Incendies / Forêts (trilogy) at Théâtre national de Chaillot
• 2010: Seuls at Festival d'Avignon
• 2011: Seuls at Le Quartz
• 2011: Temps quandary Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui
• 2011: Le Cycle nonsteroid Femmes: trois histoires de Sophocle at Festival d'Avignon (music coarse Bertrand Cantat and Pascal Humbert)

Adaptations

He has adapted different works backing the theatre, from Don Quixote to Trainspotting.

Interpretations

Others

• 2004: Je suis le méchant!, interviews with André Brassard (Leméac)
• 2004: Littoral, cinematic excrescence of the theater work provision the same name TVA Films
• 2005: Architecture d'un marcheur, interviews predisposed to Jean-François Côté (Leméac)
• 2009: Le Sang des Promesses: Puzzle, racines, et rhizomes, travel notes, leading, regarding the process of verbal skill and directing of the tour guide la tetralogy (Léméac/Actes Sud)
• 2011: Traduire Sophocle (Actes Sud)

Awards and distinctions

Sources

• Charlotte Farcet, Les Tigres de Wajdi Mouawad (Joca Seria, 2009)

References

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