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Exhibitions
Maison
Jean Vilar
More than a hundred exhibitions on entertainment
have been created or held at the Maison Jean Vilar
since its inauguration in 1979.
Among which :
Lorenzaccio, Gérard Philipe, Jean Vilar, Daniel
Sorano, The joy of Opera, Roger Pic a witness of
Maurice Béjart, The Commedia dell'arte, Jean Vilar
and painters, André Acquart : theatre settings and
craft, The art of entertainment in India, Africa and
China, The Hivernales (dance and sport...), Louis
Jouvet and screencraft, The Circus and its artists, The
Milan Piccolo Teatro, Alexandre Trauner : fifty years
of cinema, Georges Pitoëff, Mime and pantomime,
Civic Theatre, Stage families in freedom, Journey
through the French theatre, Young scenographies,
Georges Wilson, Platonov...
RICHARD II, THÉÂTRE DU SOLEIL, 1982.
Workshops
Pedagogic workshops about the arts in entertainment for all levels (primary, secondary, university)..
Meetings
Lectures, readings, debats, colloquies :
– around the themes of the exhibitions,
– informations on local cultural life and live entertainment all year round and more precisely during
the festival period in July.
Residence of a prelate during the Papacy in Avignon, seat
of the administration of the district of Avignon during the
Revolution,then seat of the archbishop of Avignon until the
separation of the Church and the State in 1905. The Hôtel
de Crochans was bought by the municipality of Avignon in
1974 to shelter the Maison
Jean Vilar opened in 1979. .
Visiting hours
The Maison Jean Vilar is opened from Tuesday to Friday
from 9AM to noon and from
1.30 PM to 5.30P PM.
On saturdays from 10 AM to 5 PM
Association
Jean Vilar
Bibliothèque
nationale de France
Special opening during
the Festival (July).
Ville d’Avignon
Closed in August.
8, rue de Mons
Montée Paul Puaux
84000 Avignon
All documents are only to be
consulted at the Maison Jean
Vilar. Free access.
Tél. (33) 04 90 86 59 64
Fax. (33) 04 90 86 00 07
www.maisonjeanvilar.org
Pope’s
Palace
Backing the Maison Jean Vilar...
– to receive at home the quaterly Cahiers de la Maison Jean
Vilar
Publications
Town
house
Place
de l’Horloge
Theater
rue de Mons
A home for the arts in entertainment
Maison
Jean
Vilar
– and to receive a discount on all publications of the Maison
Jean Vilar
you may join the Jean Vilar Association
(8, rue de Mons - Montée Paul Puaux - 84000 Avignon),
yearly contribution : 25 euros or more if you like.
Les Cahiers
de la Maison Jean Vilar
(every trimester)
Books by and on Jean Vilar, his collaborators,
the National Popular Theater and the Festival of
Avignon
Posters, postcards....
MAQUETTE DE LÉON GISCHIA.
The Jean Vilar association receives grants from
PHOTORIGHTS
YVON PROVOST (VAUCLUSE-MATIN DAUPHINÉ LIBÉRÉ), MARIO ATZINGER,
MAURICE COSTA, JEAN-PIERRE CAMPOMAR (MUNICIPALITY OF AVIGNON).
the Municipality of Avignon
the Department of Vaucluse
the PACA Region
the Ministry of Culture and Communication
MAISON JEAN VILAR
I created for my era
the theater of my time
Jean Vilar
Jean Vilar was born in Sète in 1912, son of
small retailers. He studied with Charles
Dullin at the Theatre de l'Atelier later to
become his stage director. An actor during
the war with the traveling company "La
Roulotte", an animator in "La Compagnie
des sept", he stages Strindberg, Eliot,
Kœstler and his first Don Juan in small
theatres. In 1947, enticed by René Char and
the art editor Christian Zervos, Jean Vilar
organizes a week of dramatic art in
Avignon at the Pope Palace : it will be the
JEAN VILAR, RICHARD II, 1947.
birth of the Festival of Avignon. In 1951,
during the 5th festival Gérard Philipe revives Le Cid and creates Le Prince de
Hombourg. Jeanne Laurent, assistant manager at the Direction of the Fine Arts,
appoints Jean Vilar director of the "National Popular Theatre" (TNP). Performing in
the Paris suburbs, under a tent, in the large amphitheater of the Palais de Chaillot
(27 000 seats), wich is like an underground Cour d'honneur of the Pope Palace, or
on tour, the TNP becomes the French theatre ambassador all over the world.
During 12 years under Jean Vilar direction, the TNP gathered the most innovating
painters, musicians, scenographors, technicians and administrators. He garnered
an audience of more than 5 millions persons, thrusting a style, an esthetic, an
ethic through a repertoire of 57 classical and modern plays that makes him a
legend. In 1963, Jean Vilar
gives up the direction of the
T.N.P. to Georges Wilson.
However, until his death in
1971, he keeps the direction
of the Festival of Avignon,
renewing it by widening its
scope and opening it to all
disciplines of entertainment.
Collections and documentary resources
Library
Soon after Jean Vilar's death, the Jean Vilar Association
undertook on Paul Puaux's leadership to gather all the documents testifying to his life and work.
Then the Municipality of Avignon and the Department of
Dramatic Arts of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France joined
force to found the Maison which bears his name. Beyond the
document collections of a theatre adventure, highlight in the
history of the twentieth century theater, the Maison Jean Vilar
presents to the public a comprehensive source of information
on all forms of modern entertainment.
A local unit of the Departement of
Dramatic Arts of the Bibliothèque
nationale de France
Jean Vilar fund
Archives gathered by
the Jean Vilar Association :
GÉRARD PHILIPE, LE PRINCE DE HOMBOURG.
■ Published or unpublished texts by Jean Vilar
(manuscripts and mail)
■ Models and costumes (2000) by painters cooperating with Jean Vilar
■ Posters, programs, texts of the TNP repertoire.
■ Contact prints, slides (life at the TNP : performances, rehearsals, tours...)
■ Compilation of press cuttings (reviews, interviews, critical papers)
■ Sounds archives (many unknown recordings of
performances and conferences at the TNP)
■ Video documents archives about Jean Vilar 's work
with his team and actors : Gérard Philipe, Maria
Casarès, Daniel Sorano…
On Maison Jean Vilar second floor you will discover
a library :
■ 25000 books and about a hundred magazines
all of them dealing with the arts in entertainment:
theatre, dance, opera, cinema, circus, clowns,
variety, mime, music-hall, celebrations and puppets ; texts from the classical and modern, French
or foreign repertoire
■ Memorabilia of the "In" and "Off" Festival of
Avignon : press cuttings, posters, programs, performances photos
■ Data concerning the theatre and culture life in Avignon and its region since
the opening of the Maison Jean Vilar in
1979
■ Current cultural events, informations
about entertainment crafts
■ Access to the BNF web site, catalogues on line, data concerning performances and other means of researches.
PLATONOV, SETTING BY ÉRIC LACASCADE, 2002.
Video library
More than 1000 titles
dealing with the arts in entertainment
On ground floor, 3 video rooms can accomodate up
to 60 viewers.
■ Classical and modern plays records
■ Documents about authors, directors, choreographers, actors
■ Dance, mime, puppets, musical theater performances, movies, Avignon Festival broadcasts.
Catalogue available.
Viewing by appointment (for group or single) .
PHILIPPE AVRON.
BALLET DU XXE SIÈCLE, CHORÉGR. MAURICE BÉJART.