Georges Pitoëff was born on 4 September 1884 in Tiflis (now Tbilisi,
Georgia), then in Russia, and died on 17 September 1939 in Bellevue,
near Geneva, Switzerland. Russian-born of Armenian origins, he was the
son of the Director of the Tiflis Theatre. After studying and
graduating in Law at Paris University, he became a theatre director
and producer, noted for his popularization in France of the works of
contemporary playwrights, especially Luigi Pirandello, George Bernard
Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Shnitzler, Henrik Ibsen, and Eugene
O'Neill. He was a founding member of the Cartel des Quatre (Group of
Four), a group including Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, and Gaston
Baty, dedicated to rejuvenating the French theatre.[1]One of his sons,
Alexandre, known as Sacha Pitoëff, was himself a noted French theatre
director and actor.
Georgia), then in Russia, and died on 17 September 1939 in Bellevue,
near Geneva, Switzerland. Russian-born of Armenian origins, he was the
son of the Director of the Tiflis Theatre. After studying and
graduating in Law at Paris University, he became a theatre director
and producer, noted for his popularization in France of the works of
contemporary playwrights, especially Luigi Pirandello, George Bernard
Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Shnitzler, Henrik Ibsen, and Eugene
O'Neill. He was a founding member of the Cartel des Quatre (Group of
Four), a group including Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, and Gaston
Baty, dedicated to rejuvenating the French theatre.[1]One of his sons,
Alexandre, known as Sacha Pitoëff, was himself a noted French theatre
director and actor.
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