Wajdi Muawad ( French: Wajdi Mouawad , born October 16, 1968 in Deir al-Kamar , Lebanon ) is a Canadian ( Quebec ) playwright and theater director of Lebanese descent.
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Biography
In 1976, he moved with his family from Lebanon to France , and in 1983 - to Quebec.
He was carried away by the theater in the Lyceum. In 1991 he graduated from the National Theater School in Montreal . In 1990-1999, together with actress Isabelle Leblanc, led the theater troupe Loud Speaker ( French Théâtre Ô Parleur ). During this period, he began to write his own plays. In 2000-2004, he headed the Montreal Three-Penny Theater ( Fr. Théâtre de Quat'Sous ).
In 2004, he directed a film based on his play Coast. He was a guest playwright at the 2009 Avignon Festival .
The author of several novels, the last of which is Anima (2012), received a number of awards in France and Canada [2] .
Creativity
Pieces
- Partie de cache-cache entre 2 tchécoslovaques au début du siècle (1992)
- Alphonse '(1996)
- Les mains d'Edwige au moment de la naissance (1999)
- Coast - Littoral (1999)
- Pacamambo (2000)
- Rêves (2002)
- Fires - Incendies ( 2003 , filmed in 2010, dir. Denis Villeneuve )
- Willy Protagoras enfermé dans les toilettes (2004)
- Forêts (2006)
- Assoiffés (2007)
- Le soleil ni la mort ne peuvent se regarder en face (2008)
- Seuls - Chemin, texte et peintures (2008)
- Ciels (2009)
- Journée de noces chez les Cromagnons (2011)
Theatrical performances
- 1992 : Al Malja and L'Exil (Naji Muawad)
- 1992 : Macbeth ( Shakespeare )
- 1993 : Le Tour du monde de Joe Maquillon ( Ghislen Bouchard)
- 1995 : Tu ne violeras pas (Edna Mazia)
- 1995 : Don Quixote ( Cervantes )
- 1997 : Coast - Littoral
- 1998 : Willy Protagoras enfermé dans les toilettes
- 1998 : On the Needle (based on the novel by Irwin Welch )
- 1998 : Oedipus the King ( Sophocles )
- 1999 : Disco Pigs (Enda Walsh)
- 1999 : Trojans ( Euripides )
- 1999 : Coast - Littoral ( Avignon Festival )
- 2000 : Rêves
- 2000 : Ce n'est pas la manière dont on se l'imagine que Claude et Jacqueline se sont rencontrés (co-authored by Estella Clareton)
- 2000 : Lulu le chant souterrain ( Frank Wedekind )
- 2000 : Reading Hebron (Jason Sherman)
- 2001 : Le Mouton et la baleine (Ahmed Ghazali)
- 2001 : Six Characters in Search of an Author ( Luigi Pirandello )
- 2001 : Manuscript Found in Zaragoza (Opera by Alexis Nuss)
- 2002 : Three sisters ( A. Chekhov )
- 2003 : Fires - Incendies
- 2005 : Ma mère chien (Louise Bombardier)
- 2006 : Forêts
- 2007 : Fires - Incendies (Moscow theater Et cetera )
- 2008 : Seuls (Avignon Festival)
- 2009 : Coast - Littoral , Fires - Incendies , Forêts , Trilogy (Avignon Festival)
- 2009 : Ciels (Avignon Festival)
- 2010 : Ciels ( Odeon Theater )
- 2010 : Coast - Littoral , Fires - Incendies , Forêts , trilogy ( Chaillot Theater )
- 2010 : Seuls (Avignon Festival)
- 2011 : Temps
- 2011 : Women - Trachinians, Antigone , Electra - Des femmes - Les Trachiniennes, Antigone, Électre ( Sophocles , Avignon Festival)
Recognition
- Governor General of Canada Literature Award (2000).
- Cavalier of the French Order of Arts and Literature (2002).
- Moliere Prize to the best French-language playwright (2005).
- Officer of the Order of Canada (2009).
- Grand Theater Award of the French Academy (2009).
Notes
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Edition 2013 | Lecture en tête (Fr.) . www.lecture-en-tete.fr. Date of appeal September 29, 2018.