Jean-Luc Lagarce (; 14 February 1957 – 30 September 1995) was a French actor, theatre director and playwright."Jean-Luc Lagarce"
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. He was a cofounder of the Théâtre de La Roulotte in 1978, directing productions of playwrights such as

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in 1995. He also published a volume of short stories, wrote an opera libretto and a film screenplay, and cofounded the publishing company Les Solitaires intempestifs. He was rediscovered by critics after his death, becoming more widely recognized as one of the most important modern French playwrights. This led to many productions overseas, such as the Brazilian version of ''Music-Hall'' by Luiz Päetow, which won the Theatre Shell Award in 2010. In 2015, film director

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adapted Lagarce's '' Juste la fin du monde'' into the film ''

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'', which won the

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. Le pays lointain was produced at theatre Odeon, Paris in 2019.

Works

Plays

* ''La bonne de chez Ducatel'', 1977 * ''Erreur de construction'', 1977 * ''Carthage, encore'', 1978 * ''La Place de l'autre '', 1979 * ''Voyage de Madame Knipper vers la Prusse Orientale'', 1980 * ''Ici ou ailleurs'', 1981 * ''Les Serviteurs'', 1981 * ''Noce'', 1982 * ''Vagues souvenirs de l'année de la peste'', 1982 * ''Hollywood'', 1983 * ''Histoire d'amour (repérages)'', 1983 * ''Retour à la citadelle'', 1984 * ''Les Orphelins'', 1984 * ''De Saxe, roman'', 1985 * ''La Photographie'', 1986 * ''Derniers remords avant l'oubli'', 1987 * ''Les Solitaires intempestifs'', 1987 * ''Music-hall'', 1988 * ''Les Prétendants'', 1989 * '' Juste la fin du monde'', 1990 * ''Histoire d'amour (derniers chapitres)'', 1990 * ''Les règles du savoir-vivre dans la société moderne'', 1993 * ''Nous, les héros'', 1993 * ''Nous, les héros (version sans le père)'', 1993 * ''J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne'', 1994 * ''Le Pays lointain'', 1995

Prose

* ''Trois récits'', 1994, a collection of three short stories

Other fiction

* ''Quichotte'', 1989, libretto for a jazz opera by

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* ''Retour à l'automne'', screenplay cowritten with Gérard Bouysse

Non-fiction

* ''Théâtre et Pouvoir en Occident'', a study of how dramatists have contended with political power, from Ancient Greece to the middle of the twentieth century * ''Journal'', volume 1: 1977–1990, volume 2: 1990–1995

References

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