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Jean Anouilh
By: Samantha Burton, Mariah Hanlin, & Yavora Videnova
Family
Not biological father according to Caroline; his real father was a man his mother
had an affair with at the orchestra
Occupation: Tailor
Occupation: Violinist
Children: Catherine Anouilh 1933 (with Monelle Valentin),Caroline, MarieColombe and Nicolas ( with Nicole Lancon),
Childhood
Impromptu
Question Time
Where in Antigone do we
see some interesting
parental dynamics
like Anouilh's?
Love Life
Wife Monelle Valentin
Impromptu
Question Time
Where in Antigone do we
see one party of a
relationship questioning
whether the other partys
truly loves them?
Love Life
Wife Nicole Lanon
Education
Colbert Primary School
Collge (now Lyce) Chaptal
Career
Career
1938 - La Sauvage
Directed by Anouilhs idols and ran for 190 performances at the Theatre des
Mathurins
Directed by Pitoeff
September - Le Bal des Voleurs
Directed by Anouilhs first choice director for the next ten years
200 performances
Impromptu
Question Time
Where in Antigone do we
see Anouilhs involvement
in the war reflected?
Career
1944 - Antigone ran for 500 performances at the Atelier with Barsacq
directing and Monelle Valentin as Antigone.
Career
Quotes By Anouilh
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and
fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. Its the aim of art to give it some.
Bibliography
Anouilh, Caroline (1990). Drle de pre. Paris: M. Lafon. ISBN 2863913735.
Pronko, Leonard Cabell (1961). The World of Jean Anouilh, University of California Press.
Rocchi, Michel (2006). Mary Anne O'Neil, ed. "Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh" in Twentieth-Century
French Dramatists. Detroit: Gale Biography in Context.
Liukkonen, Petri. "Jean Anouilh". Books and Writers(kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library.
Archived from the original on 10 February 2015.
Anouilh, Jean. Antigone. London. Meuthen Drama.