André Antoine, the Glossary
André Antoine (31 January 185823 October 1943) was a French actor, theatre manager, film director, author, and critic who is considered the father of modern mise en scène in France.[1]
Table of Contents
27 relations: Actor-manager, Émile Zola, Cercle royal Gaulois artistique et littéraire, Conservatoire de Paris, Die Freie Bühne, Eugène Brieux, Film, Film criticism, Film director, Fourth wall, Henry Becque, Independent Theatre Society, L'Hirondelle et la Mésange, Legion of Honour, Limoges, List of French actors, Loire-Atlantique, London, Meiningen Ensemble, Mise-en-scène, Naturalism (theatre), Paris, Pierre Decourcelle, Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau, Théâtre Libre, The Corsican Brothers (1917 film), The Earth (1921 film).
- French silent film directors
- Theatre directors from Paris
Actor-manager
An actor-manager is a leading actor who sets up their own permanent theatrical company and manages the business, sometimes taking over a theatre to perform select plays in which they usually star. André Antoine and actor-manager are actor-managers.
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Émile Zola
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (also,; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.
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Cercle royal Gaulois artistique et littéraire
The Cercle Gaulois, in full the Cercle royal Gaulois artistique et littéraire, is a Belgian club in Brussels that promotes art.
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Conservatoire de Paris
The Conservatoire de Paris, also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795.
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Die Freie Bühne
Die Freie Bühne (German: "The Free Stage") was a subscription-based theatre club founded in Berlin, Germany in 1889 by ten writers and theatre critics supervised by Otto Brahm for the purpose of staging new, naturalistic plays that were censored, not commercially viable, or not otherwise commonly produced.
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Eugène Brieux
Eugène Brieux (19 January 18586 December 1932) was a French dramatist.
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Film
A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.
Film criticism
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium.
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Film director
A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.
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Fourth wall
The fourth wall is a performance convention in which an invisible, imaginary wall separates actors from the audience.
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Henry Becque
Henry François Becque (9 April 1837 – 12 May 1899), was a French dramatist.
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Independent Theatre Society
The Independent Theatre Society was a by-subscription-only organisation in London from 1891 to 1897, founded by Dutch drama critic Jacob Grein to give "special performances of plays which have a literary and artistic rather than a commercial value." (A Glimpse of Theatre History), accessed 15 January 2009 The society was inspired by its continental forerunners, the Théâtre-Libre (Free Theatre) and Die Freie Bühne (Free Stage).
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L'Hirondelle et la Mésange
L'Hirondelle et la Mésange ("the swallow and the titmouse") is a French drama film directed by André Antoine, filmed in 1920 but not released.
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Legion of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes.
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Limoges
Limoges (Lemòtges, locally Limòtges) is a city and commune, and the prefecture of the Haute-Vienne department in west-central France.
List of French actors
This is a list of notable actors and actresses from France.
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Loire-Atlantique
Loire-Atlantique (Gallo: Louére-Atantique; Liger-Atlantel; before 1957: Loire-Inférieure, Liger-Izelañ) is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France, named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Meiningen Ensemble
The Meiningen Ensemble, also known as the Meiningen Company, was a troupe of actors led by Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, his wife Ellen Franz, and Ludwig Chronegk.
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Mise-en-scène
Mise-en-scène ("placing on stage" or "what is put into the scene") is the stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production, both in the visual arts through storyboarding, visual themes, and cinematography and in narrative-storytelling through directions.
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Naturalism (theatre)
Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Pierre Decourcelle
Pierre Adrien Decourcelle (25 January 1856 - 10 October 1926) was a French writer and playwright.
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Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau
Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau is a theater located at 14 boulevard de Strasbourg in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
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Théâtre Libre
The Théâtre Libre (French for "Free Theatre") was a theatre company that operated from 1887 to 1896 in Paris, France.
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The Corsican Brothers (1917 film)
The Corsican Brothers (French:Les frères corses) is a 1917 French silent adventure film directed by André Antoine and starring Henry Krauss, Romuald Joubé and Rose Dione.
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The Earth (1921 film)
The Earth (La Terre) is a silent film based on the 1887 novel of the same name by Émile Zola.
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See also
French silent film directors
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- André Antoine
- André Heuzé
- André Hugon
- Auguste Lumière
- Auguste and Louis Lumière
- Charles Burguet
- Clément Maurice
- Ferdinand Zecca
- Gérard Bourgeois
- Gaston Roudès
- Georges Denola
- Georges Méliès
- Germaine Dulac
- Henri Étiévant
- Henri Fescourt
- Henri Lepage (director)
- Henri Pouctal
- Henry Krauss
- Henry Roussel
- Jacques de Baroncelli
- Jean Kemm
- Léon Poirier
- Louis Feuillade
- Louis Le Prince
- Louis Lumière
- Lucien Nonguet
- Marcel Dumont
- Marco de Gastyne
- Maurice Mariaud
- Maurice Tourneur
- Max Linder
- Michel Hazanavicius
- Patrick Bokanowski
- René Leprince
- Robert Péguy
- Romeo Bosetti
Theatre directors from Paris
- Édouard Marchand
- Administrators of the Comédie-Française
- André Antoine
- Bruno Bayen
- Caroline Amiguet
- Christian-Gérard
- Frede (cabaret manager)
- Gabriel Dussurget
- Georges-François Hirsch
- Guy Suarès
- Hippolyte Hostein
- Jacques Baumer
- Jacques Fornier
- Jean de Létraz
- Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
- Laurent Pelly
- Marguerite Olagnier
- Micheline Attoun
- Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier
- Olivier Tambosi
- Pascal Légitimus
- Paul Gavault
- Philippe Adrien
- Robert Ancelin
- Roland Piétri
- Victor Koning
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Antoine
Also known as André Antoine (actor), Antoine, André.