Description: Oct 21-154Dimensions: 24 cm by 18 cm.Photograph circa 1930.On the back the stamp of the Paul Vitez studio.Fast and careful shippingOct 21-154 Antoine Vitez liked to point out that his photographer father was also an anarchist. A student at the National School of Oriental Languages, he graduated in Russian and for a time considered becoming a translator. He was drawn to the theatre, but failed the competitive examination for the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris in 1950. A communist activist until 1979, he left the PCF following the invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR.He performs the play Drama in Toulon - Henri Martin by Claude Martin and Henri Delmas which relates the life and trial of Henri Martin, a sailor opposed to the Indochina War and sentenced to five years of imprisonment for participation in an “enterprise of demoralization of the army and the nation1,2,3. » Charles Denner, René-Louis Lafforgue, José Valverde and Paul Préboist are some of the actors in the troupe4. The performances are prohibited by several prefects5 and mayors. But censorship is often thwarted and the play is performed more than three hundred times.Vitez met Louis Aragon in 1958, of whom he was his private secretary from 1960 to 1962. He thus participated in the writing of the volume of the Parallel History of the USA and the USSR: 1917-1960 devoted to the USSR and directed by Aragon6.He followed Tania Balachova's theater classes, collaborated with the magazine Brief, published by Jean Vilar, and with the magazine Théâtre populaire. He did radio readings, film dubbing and began directing with Electre7 by Sophocles at the Maison de la Culture in Caen in 1966.In 1971, he proposed to the city of Ivry to found the Théâtre des Quartiers d'Ivry there. He stages avant-garde plays by René Kalisky and Pierre Guyotat, classic plays, adaptations of novels, and welcomes the productions of young directors like Stuart Seide. Despite the success and the influx of a passionate audience, the necessary subsidies were slow to arrive and the theater was forced into bankruptcy. His staging of Paul Claudel's Partage de midi for the Comédie-Française in 1975 was such a success that it was performed at the Salle Richelieu from the following season and until 1981 (with a detour to Buenos Aires during an official tour in May 1977).In 1981, following the election of François Mitterrand, Vitez was given the direction of the Théâtre de Chaillot for seven years. For the Avignon festival, he produced the complete version of Claudel's Soulier de satin.In 1988, he was appointed administrator of the Comédie-Française8.His writings on theater, personal notes, interviews or published articlesHe performs the play Drama in Toulon - Henri Martin by Claude Martin and Henri Delmas which relates the life and trial of Henri Martin, a sailor opposed to the Indochina War and sentenced to five years of imprisonment for participation in an “enterprise of demoralization of the army and the nation1,2,3. » Charles Denner, René-Louis Lafforgue, José Valverde and Paul Préboist are some of the actors in the troupe4. The performances are prohibited by several prefects5 and mayors. But censorship is often thwarted and the play is performed more than three hundred times. In 1971, he proposed to the city of Ivry to found the Théâtre des Quartiers d'Ivry there. He stages avant-garde plays by René Kalisky and Pierre Guyotat, classic plays, adaptations of novels, and welcomes the productions of young
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