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Jacques Copeau
French director
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Born | ()4 February Paris, France |
Died | 20 October () (aged70) |
Occupation(s) | Director, producer, actor, and dramatist |
Jacques Copeau (French:[kɔpo]; 4 February 20 October ) was a French theatre director, producer, actor, and dramatist.
The French writer, editor, and drama critic Jacques Copeau (–) opened his Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris in Copeau was well on his way to.
Before he founded the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris, he wrote theatre reviews for several Parisian journals, worked at the Georges Petit Gallery where he organized exhibits of artists' works and helped found the Nouvelle Revue Française in , along with writer friends, such as André Gide and Jean Schlumberger.
Twentieth century French theatre is marked by Copeau's outlook. According to Albert Camus, "in the history of the French theatre, there are two periods: before Copeau and after Copeau."[1]
Early life and formative years
The child of a well-off middle-class family, the Paris-born Copeau was raised in Paris and atten