Death of director Jean-Pierre Vincent
Jean-Pierre Vincent, director and theater director, died on November 5, 2020, at the age of 78.
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Text by: Muriel Maalouf
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Jean-Pierre Vincent, one of the biggest names in French theater passed away last night at the age of 78, weakened by the Covid-19 contracted in the spring.
The director began his career with Patrice Chéreau and Jérôme Deschamps and directed major national stages.
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It was at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand that Jean-Pierre Vincent met Patrice Chéreau and Jérôme Deschamps with whom he took his first steps in the theater.
A passion that will never leave him.
He began by playing in the plays of Patrice Chéreau then met Jean Jourdheuil with whom he founded his first company to turn definitively towards directing.
First attracted by the German theater, he began by staging Brecht, Büchner then Molière, Shakespeare, Musset, Jarry, Beckett ...
The demands of a theater "that does not leave people untouched"
In nearly 60 years of career, Jean-Pierre Vincent has directed dozens of shows.
In 1975, he directed his first national stage, the Strasbourg Theater.
1983, François Mitterrand entrusts him with the management of the Comédie-Française.
But he is not very comfortable in the large, highly codified house which he leaves after three years.
1990, he succeeds Patrice Chéreau at the head of the Amandiers de Nanterre where he finds his place in this great scene of decentralization that he leads for more than ten years as a true pioneer of talent.
Jean-Pierre Vincent has defended all his life a demanding theater "which does not leave people untouched, which fills them with thought and humanity".
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