Eric Vigner

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Éric Vigner, 2015

Éric Vigner (born October 27, 1960 in Rennes ) is a French theater director, actor and set designer. He directed the CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient , Center Dramatique de Bretagne from 1996 to 2015.

biography

Éric Vigner completed his teaching degree as a visual artist at the University of Haute-Bretagne. His interest in theater led him to further studies in Paris, at the University of Theater and Drama Technology (ENSATT) and the Academy for Performing Arts ( Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique , CNSAD). As a visual artist, he turned to stage design, designed costumes and appeared as an actor. A profound training in all theater professions laid the foundation for an independent artistic path.

In 1990 he founded the company Suzanne M. Éric Vigner. In 1996, Éric Vigner was appointed by the Minister of Culture to head the CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient , Center Dramatique de Bretagne (France). Most of his productions are developed here and a new generation of actors, directors and theater writers find an artistic haven at the CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient. Between 1996 and 2014, 84 premieres were produced and co-produced under his direction. The CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient has had two venues since 2003: the CDDB (338 seats) and the Grand Théâtre (1050 seats) newly built by Henri Gaudin.

In addition to his commitment to contemporary writers such as Marguerite Duras and Roland Dubillard , which earned him the title “Chevalier dans l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ” in 1998 , Éric Vigner developed a new approach to French classics - Jean Racines Bajazet ( Comédie-Française 1995 ), Pierre Corneilles L'Illusion comique (Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers 1996), Victor Hugos Marion Delorme (Théâtre de la Ville 1999), Molières L'École des femmes (Comédie-Française 1999) and William Shakespeare's Othello ( Odéon-Théâtre de l 'Europe 2008).

At the international level, he performed Molières and Lully's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme in Korean at the Korean National Theater in Seoul (Prix France / Corée 2004). The production was shown in 2006 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. In 2007, the production of Le Barbier de Séville by Beaumarchais in Albanian with actors from the Tirana National Theater followed , and in 2008 In the solitude of cotton fields by Bernard-Marie Koltès at the 7 Stages Theater in Atlanta in English.

On October 3rd, 2010, Éric Vigner founded the “Académie internationale de Théâtre” in Lorient, consisting of seven actors from different origins: Korea, Germany, Romania, Mali, Belgium, Morocco and Israel. Three pieces were performed in this context: La Place Royale by Pierre Corneille, Guantanamo by Frank Smith and La Faculté by Christophe Honoré .

theatre

play

Productions

“The theater that interests me and that I try to do is a theater that offers a 'projection surface' that offers the audience a 'space' in which they can freely form their own images. For me, theater is not a place where you can find answers, but a place where it is possible to revisit stories, our inner, forgotten stories, a place where the viewer finds access to the unknown - that is called something he has forgotten. To make this possible, the theater needs its counterpart, its paradox: to represent something and at the same time to be something else. For example, when Cézanne was painting apples, 'I want to amaze Paris with an apple.' His subject is not the 'apple', his subject is 'painting'. The same applies to the theater: you rely on a story and discover the meaning of theater. "

- Eric Vigner

Opera productions

Stage sets

International theater academy

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Vigner, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theater director and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Rennes