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monday, March 8, 2004, 7 pm
Auditorium
Admission free
In French . |
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Anne Delbée is an actress, director, and playwright.
She founded her own theater during the 70’s and presented, most notably, the works of Schiller and Claudel.
In 1981, Delbée wrote and produced a piece on Camille Claudel, who was until then relatively unknown to the general public.
The following year, she published a book entitled, “Camille Claudel, une femme”, which was an immediate success.
While continuing her directing pursuits, Delbée published several works on historical figures of the theater-namely, Racine and Sarah Bernhardt, whose lives, for her, represent a lifelong passion.
For the first time after a long silence, Delbée has accepted an invitation to speak again on the woman she introduced to the world in 1982.
The publication of this book precipitated films, expositions, lawsuits, additional books on the subject, as well as endless debates on Claudel’s mental instability, her genius, and on the destructive toll Claudel’s art took on her life. Delbée wrote this inspired book completely unaware of the shockwaves that it would cause.
One follows Claudel’s life from her childhood to her last days after thirty years living as a virtual recluse.
We see Claudel, in agony, engaged in a dialogue with a young and innocent version of herself--a hapless Claudel completely unaware of the tragic end that awaits her.
Delbée shows how an unknown woman can become a feminist symbol with all the accompanying contradictions. Contradictions with which the author is well acquainted, (Delbée describes herself jokingly as one of the first female “men of the theater”).
So, how does a female artist survive in a world dominated by men?
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