(Actes du Théâtre N°37 - Février 2010)
Alain Gautré was first a student, then a teacher at the Jacques Lecoq School. He is also an actor, theatre director, and co-founder with Pierre Pradinas of the Chapeau Rouge company, for whom he has written several plays. He is a clown and a puppeteer. His writing grows directly out of his relationship to the stage. He is very involved in his clown work, which he his constantly perfecting. He leads workshops for professional clowns, and directs clown shows such as Les Nouveaux Nez. He also writes for film and television.
His plays include: Le Jardin d’à côté (dir. by the playwright, Th. Mouffetard; French tour, 1975), Place de Breteuil (dir. by P. Pradinas, Chapeau Rouge; Th. de La Tempête, 1978; restaged and toured in France, 1985), Babylone (dir. by P. Pradinas, Chapeau Rouge; Th. de La Tempête and European tour, 1979), Le Café sous la terre (dir. by V. Gracieux, Th de la Jeune Lune, Minneapolis, 1985), Durendal (dir. by the playwright, Chapeau Rouge; cdr de Picardie, Amiens, 1985), Chef-lieu (dir. by J.-Cl. Fall, tgp, Saint-Denis, 1992), Le Château dans la forêt (1992), Hôtel du Grand Large (writing grant from the Ministère de la Culture; dir. by Marc-Ange Sanz, Th. populaire de Lorraine, Belgique, Luxembourg 1995; éd. Actes Sud-Papiers), La Chapelle-en-Brie (Audience Prize at Paroles d’auteurs, reading directed by Marcel Bluwal, TEP 1996; dir. by the playwright, Th. du Rond-Point 2009 ; éd. Théâtrales 1996), Haute Garonne (writing residency at La Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon with support from the CNL 1997), La Brèche-au-Loup (part of Urgence de la jeune parole, dir. by Muriel Benazeraf, Th. de la Digue de Toulouse 2000; éd. Lansman/Urgence de la parole 2000), Comme ça (writing grant from the Ministère de la Culture, texts written after canvases by Isabelle Hervouët; TJP de Strasbourg 2000), La Femme en rouge (for Embouteillage, dir. by Anne-Laure Liégeois, Festival d’Avignon 2000 and Grande Halle de La Villette; éd. Théâtrales), Poucet (dir. by François Fehner, in a circus tent in Toulouse 2002), Peplum (funny/erotic texts inspired by Antiquity, with support from the CNL), Amiour (part of Urgence de la jeune parole, dir. by Pascale Bessard, Th. de Cahors; éd. Lansman/Urgence de la jeune parole 2004), Mélancolie, monologue pour chêne pubescent du Quercy (short text written for Stéphanie Tesson, as part of the Fantaisies bucoliques, Château de Versailles; éd. L’Avant-Scène 2005), Rocamadour (short text written for Sylvie Baillon, cie Chés Panse verte 2005),Impasse des Anges (dir. by the playwright;Th.de la Tempête 2010), Les Amis du Président .
His other plays include: Gevrey-Chambertin (co-written with Pierre Pradinas and Albert Marcoeur, TEP 1981), Genèse (co-written with Jean-Louis Heckel, Scène nat. du Moulin du Roc, Niort 1990), Siège (co-written with Yves Marc, writing grant from the Ministère de la Culture; Th. du Lierre, Paris 1995), Folie à deux (co-written with Vidisha Mallik and Ed Damron; Expresstaetern, Sweden 1997), Arriver pour partir (a clownesque play written with Gabriel Chamé; dir. by the playwright, Th. Le Samovar 2005, Spain, Argentina).
Other works he has staged: Bratsch (musical production, Th de la Potinière, Paris 1982), General probe by Helga Hutter (Vienna, Austria 1987), El burgues gentilhombre by Molière (Th. Arlequin de Asuncion, Paraguay 1987, an AFAA production), El verdugo (clown production, Th. Arlequin de Asuncion, Paraguay 1988, an AFAA production), Route de nuit by Yves Javault (Roseau Th., Paris 1988), 1789 Tour (clown production, Buenos Aires 1989, spectacle AFAA), Cosima Barbes (clown production, cirque de Barbarie 1990), Whatever the weather (clown production, Switzerland, England, Germany, etc. 1992), Oxygène et Bazooka (clown duet by the Th. du Mouvement, on tour in China 1992), Elin Kvist (clown production, Expressteatern, Malmö – Sweden 1993), Alba (musical, Th. de la Bastille, Paris 1994), Europrecar, la passion du précaire (street theatre, Th. de la Digue, Toulouse 1998, Festival d’Aurillac 1999), Colette Gomette, clown (dir. two numbers, Th. Le Samovar 2000), L’Inauguration ou le travail de monsieur Poussin (street number for two clowns, Th. Le Fourneau, Brest 2000), Les Balancelles by Catherine Zambon (Th. Paul Scarron, Le Mans 2002, TEP 2003), L’Avare by Molière (Eté de Vaour, Th. de la Tempête, Paris 2005), La Chapelle-en-Brie (Th. du Rond-Point, 2009) and Impasse des anges (Th. de la Tempête, Th. Georges-Leygues in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, 2010)coproduced by Compagnie Tutti Troppo, with support from Drac Ile-de-France, "Beaumarchais"-SACD, Théâtre de la Tempête and the artistic participation of Jeune Théâtre national.
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