Romain Weingarten (5 December 1926 â€" 13 July 2006) was a French
playwright.He was born in Paris, and grew up in Brittany and
Château-Thierry. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he was
strongly influenced by the work of Antonin Artaud, to whom he
dedicated his first play, "Akara". Later though Weingarten rejected
the label of "Theatre of the Absurd" sometimes attached to his work,
and claimed an affiliation with the Surrealists and Roger Vitrac,
preferring to describe his work as "poetic". In 1998, he received the
Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie française.Weingarten died of
old age, according to his family, at Challans, Vendée, and was buried
in Mauron in Morbihan.This page is a translation of the French page.
playwright.He was born in Paris, and grew up in Brittany and
Château-Thierry. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he was
strongly influenced by the work of Antonin Artaud, to whom he
dedicated his first play, "Akara". Later though Weingarten rejected
the label of "Theatre of the Absurd" sometimes attached to his work,
and claimed an affiliation with the Surrealists and Roger Vitrac,
preferring to describe his work as "poetic". In 1998, he received the
Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie française.Weingarten died of
old age, according to his family, at Challans, Vendée, and was buried
in Mauron in Morbihan.This page is a translation of the French page.
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