Benmussa, Simone

Born in Tunisia in a Jewish family. Studied at Sciences Po and Sorbonne . She was in charge of the literary department of the theater company Renault- Barro , and was a member of the editorial board of the company Notebooks . Since 1976 , without leaving work at the Renault-Barro company, she began to independently stage experimental performances. Participant in numerous theater avant-garde colloquies in Europe and America.

• 1976 : A portrait of Dora Helen Sixx (about a case of hysteria investigated by Freud ), with the participation of Carolyn Carlson , episodes filmed by Nestor Almendros and Marguerite Duras , were shown in France, Switzerland and Austria. New production in London , 1979 .
• 1977 : Seaside North Sarduya
• 1977/1978 : The amazing life of Albert Nobbs , according to George Moore . New productions in London (with Susanne York), Rome , Dublin , New York (with Glenn Close ) and Paris (with Auror Clement ).
• 1978: Journey through Lost Time , a play-exhibition based on family documents of the 19th century.
• 1979 : Apparences by Henry James (with Susanne York , Sami Frey et al.). New production - in London ( 1980 )
• 1979: The Secret Opera of Maria Callas , performance exhibition
• 1980 : Riot , Villiers de Lil-Adana
• 1981 : The death of Ivan Ilyich , according to L. Tolstoy
• 1981: Virginia , a play by Edna O'Brien from the texts and letters of Virginia Wolf .
• 1982 : Pinhole camera , based on the works of Gertrude Stein , with the participation of Lucinda Childs
• 1982/1983 : Freshwater Virginia Wolf. The production was shown in London and New York in 1983 , in Spoleto in 1984 . In a new production of 1984 at the Paris Ron-Puin Theater, the main roles were played by Eugene Ionesco , Natalie Sarrot, Alain Rob-Grillet , Michel Degas , Joyce Mansour and others.
• 1984 : Childhood by Natalie Sarrot. In the same year, the play was staged in New York with the participation of Glenn Close.
• 1984/1985: The human voice of Jean Cocteau with Susanne York. Delivered in London, New York, Bucharest , Budapest , Athens and Edinburgh .
• 1985: Henry James returns to Florence .
• 1986 : Yes or No Natalie Sarrot. Resumed in 1988 , went on stages in France and Switzerland until 2000 . The staging of the play in Barcelona was an exceptional success.
• 1986: Bathing of Diana Pierre Klossowski (with voice recording).
• 1987 : opera Shaman Prism based on Paul Jenkins comics.
• 1988 : Hollow by Agatha Christie .
• 1989 : Michelet, or the Tearful Gift , based on Michelet's works.
• 1990 : L'Absolu naturel Goffredo Parisis .
• 1991 : Mozart in Paris , performance exhibition
• 1992 : In the summer house of Jane Bowles , set in Barcelona in Catalan.
• 1993 : Roman Fever and Christopher Edith Wharton . Resumed in 1995 .
• 1994 : The Happy Days of Samuel Becket . Delivered in London.
• 1995 : Travelers to Nietzsche and Lou Andreas-Salome with music by Nietzsche and Arnold Schoenberg .
• 1995/1996: Women of Jake Neil Simon . Delivered in Barcelona.
• 1996: Scenes of insanity , montage based on the works of Lothreamon , Maupassant , Strindberg , Nietzsche, Kleist and Shakespeare . Delivered in Barcelona.
• 1996: The Artist and His Models , by Henry James.
• 1998 : Maria Kallas: woman, voice, myth , performance exhibition
• 1999 : Sacred Fire by correspondence of George Sand and Frederic Chopin .

• Eugène Ionesco ( 1966 )
• Le Prince répète le Prince, novel ( 1984 )
• Nathalie Sarraute: qui etes vous, biography ( 1987 )
• Entretiens avec Nathalie Sarraute, conversations ( 1999 )

• Theatrical production and destruction of reality // Theory of theater. Digest of articles. Moscow: International Agency "AD&T.", 2000

• Obituary in the Guardian Newspaper
• Simone Benmyuss Foundation at the National Library of France