Alain Maratrat (born 1950) is French actor, theater and opera director
known for his innovative interpretations and staging. He has shared
his longtime exploration of the body as an instrument of theatrical
expression through workshops and classes for actors, dancers, and
singers, throughout the world. He was a winner of a Golden Mask award
in 2006, as director of the opera Il Viaggio a Reims.Alain Maratrat
was born in Paris into a family far from the world of art; his father
was a train conductor and his mother had stopped working as a
dressmaker to raise her children.[1] He attended the Institute
National des Arts du Spectacle in Brussels, Belgium from 1969-1973
and, thirty years later, joined 3 fellow students from the class of
‘73 to play their younger selves in Trente Ans a Peine, a play by
Jean-Claude Carrière, which was based on their acting aspirations and
experiences at INSAS.[2]In 1974 Maratrat was invited to join Peter
Brook’ s company, the International Centre for Theatre Research, and
he remained an active member of the company for nearly 20 years,
participating in most of the company's successful productions. He
acted, experimented and traveled the world with Brook's multi-cultural
assembly of actors, dancers, musicians and other performers. They
participated in theatrical encounters with audiences in native
villages, asylums schools and a prison, as well as traditional
theaters throughout the world. Working with Brook fed and developed
Maratrat's interest in creating theater that would touch and enliven
ordinary people, regardless of their culture.[3] Since leaving Brook's
company, Maratrat has managed active careers as an actor (film,
theater and television), theater and opera director, and acting
teacher.He has performed in films by directors Claude Berri, Amos
Gitai, Michel Deville and Alain Berberian[4] and plays directed by
Bruno Bayen, Philippe Mantha, Gabriel Garran, Peter Brook, Dominique
Mühler, Bernard Sobel and Gaston Jung.[5][6] Maratrat has directed
theatrical productions of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom (1991),[7] Dumas’
The Three Musketeers (1993) and Gaston Salvatore's Staline (1994).[8]
Braz's Rencontres (1995) was staged after a year-long collective
workshop.[9][10] He directed Goldoni's The Impresario from Smyrna and
The Dance Lesson (1996). In 1998 he directed The Conference of Birds
with the Teatro Kismet and a group of international actors in Bari,
Italy, and in 1999 he traveled to South Africa to direct Romeo was a
Shoeshiner with social centers in the townships of Pretoria. More
recent productions include Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night Ì s Dream
(2003), Chekhov's The Three Sisters (2004), Ibsen's Peer Gynt (2004),
Marivaux's The Dispute (2005), Shakespeare's The Twelfth Night (2006)
and Schiller's Marie Stuart (2011).[11]
known for his innovative interpretations and staging. He has shared
his longtime exploration of the body as an instrument of theatrical
expression through workshops and classes for actors, dancers, and
singers, throughout the world. He was a winner of a Golden Mask award
in 2006, as director of the opera Il Viaggio a Reims.Alain Maratrat
was born in Paris into a family far from the world of art; his father
was a train conductor and his mother had stopped working as a
dressmaker to raise her children.[1] He attended the Institute
National des Arts du Spectacle in Brussels, Belgium from 1969-1973
and, thirty years later, joined 3 fellow students from the class of
‘73 to play their younger selves in Trente Ans a Peine, a play by
Jean-Claude Carrière, which was based on their acting aspirations and
experiences at INSAS.[2]In 1974 Maratrat was invited to join Peter
Brook’ s company, the International Centre for Theatre Research, and
he remained an active member of the company for nearly 20 years,
participating in most of the company's successful productions. He
acted, experimented and traveled the world with Brook's multi-cultural
assembly of actors, dancers, musicians and other performers. They
participated in theatrical encounters with audiences in native
villages, asylums schools and a prison, as well as traditional
theaters throughout the world. Working with Brook fed and developed
Maratrat's interest in creating theater that would touch and enliven
ordinary people, regardless of their culture.[3] Since leaving Brook's
company, Maratrat has managed active careers as an actor (film,
theater and television), theater and opera director, and acting
teacher.He has performed in films by directors Claude Berri, Amos
Gitai, Michel Deville and Alain Berberian[4] and plays directed by
Bruno Bayen, Philippe Mantha, Gabriel Garran, Peter Brook, Dominique
Mühler, Bernard Sobel and Gaston Jung.[5][6] Maratrat has directed
theatrical productions of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom (1991),[7] Dumas’
The Three Musketeers (1993) and Gaston Salvatore's Staline (1994).[8]
Braz's Rencontres (1995) was staged after a year-long collective
workshop.[9][10] He directed Goldoni's The Impresario from Smyrna and
The Dance Lesson (1996). In 1998 he directed The Conference of Birds
with the Teatro Kismet and a group of international actors in Bari,
Italy, and in 1999 he traveled to South Africa to direct Romeo was a
Shoeshiner with social centers in the townships of Pretoria. More
recent productions include Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night Ì s Dream
(2003), Chekhov's The Three Sisters (2004), Ibsen's Peer Gynt (2004),
Marivaux's The Dispute (2005), Shakespeare's The Twelfth Night (2006)
and Schiller's Marie Stuart (2011).[11]
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