France, Russia, South Korea, Albania, United States, Romania, Canada, India
Awards
Nomination Molière Awards 1996, French-Corean Cultural Prize 2004
Elected
Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Éric Vigner (born October 27, 1960, in Rennes, France) is a French stage director, actor and scenic designer. He directed the CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient, Centre Dramatique National from 1996 to 2015.
Biography
Éric Vigner graduated in visual arts from the University of Brittany[which?], France. He then studied in Paris, at the National School of theatre art and techniques (ENSATT) and at the National Drama Academy CNSAD.
In 1990 he founded his own theater company, Suzanne M. Éric Vigner. In 1996 he was appointed by the Minister of Culture (France) to direct Brittany's Drama Centre, henceforth called the CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient.
Since 1996, the graphic artists M/M Paris were in charge of the CDDB's visual communication. Besides Vigner's commitment to contemporary playwrights such as Marguerite Duras and Roland Dubillard [es; fr; gl; ht; no], for which he was awarded the honour of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998, Vigner developed a new approach to the French classics - Racine's Bajazet (Comédie-Française 1995), Corneille's L’Illusion Comique (Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers 1996), Victor Hugo's Marion De Lorme (Théâtre de la Ville 1999), Molière's L’École des femmes (Comédie-Française 1999) and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (French-Korea cultural prize 2004) and Shakeapeare's Othello (Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe 2008).
In October 2010, Vigner founded an international theater Academy, The Academy, which follows the principles of a little democracy and assembles seven young trilingual actors from seven cultural backgrounds - Morocco, Romania, Mali, Belgium, South Korea, Germany, Israel. They work on classical as well as contemporary forms of writing and present La Place Royale by Corneille, Guantanamo by Frank Smith and La Faculté by Christophe Honoré.
He developed international collaborations to last over the years, searching for a genuine mutual cultural transmission. He directed in different languages and cultural backgrounds: at the National Theater of Korea in Seoul, The Bourgeois Gentleman by Molière and Jean-Baptiste Lully (French-Korean Cultural Prize 2004); twice at the National Theater of Albania, Tirana, 2007,The Barber of Seville by Beaumarchais (Price Festival Bharat Rang Mahotsav, Inde 2011), and 2016, Lucrezia Borgia by Victor Hugo (Festival Theatre National de Bretagne, France 2017); at 7 Stages Theater, Atlanta, 2008, In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Bernard-Marie Koltès (U.S. Koltès Project); in India, Gates to India Song based on The Vice Consul and India Song by Marguerite Duras (Festival Bonjour India, Bombay, Calcutta, New-Delhi, 2013); at the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest, 2016, during Romania's campaign for Unesco's approval of The Wisdom of the Earth sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși, he staged the famous trial from 1928 - Brancusi versus the United States.
Actor
1983: L'Instruction by Peter Weiss, directed by Robert Angebaud, Church in Saint-Étienne, Rennes
1984: La mort de Pompée by Pierre Corneille, directed by Brigitte Jaques, Lierre-Théâtre, Paris
1996: L'Illusion comique by Pierre Corneille, CDDB - Théâtre de Lorient, National Tour
1996: Brancusi contre États-Unis, un procès historique, 1928, adapted for the stage by Éric Vigner, 50th Festival d'Avignon, Centre Georges Pompidou, Tribunal de Pau
1998: Toi cour, moi jardin by Jacques Rebotier, CDDB - Théâtre de Lorient
2006: Pluie d'été à Hiroshima, based on the works of Marguerite DurasLa Pluie d'été and Hiroshima mon amour, 60th Festival d'Avignon, Cloître des Carmes, National Tour.
2007: Jusqu'à ce que la mort nous sépareby Rémi De Vos, Théâtre du Rond-Point, Paris
2013: Gates to India Song, based on the works of Marguerite Duras India Song and Le Vice-Consul, Festival Bonjour India, Delhi (Residence de France (ambassade)); Kolkata (Tagore House, Rabindra Bharati University); Mumbai (Prithvi Theatre et NCPA)
1983: L'instruction by Peter Weiss, directed by Robert Angebaud
1984: La Casa Nova by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Robert Angebaud
1984: Peinture-sur-Bois by Ingmar Bergman, directed by François Kergoulay
1985: Pusuda Le Guetteur by Cahit Atay, directed by François Kergourlay
1986: La Place royale by Pierre Corneille
1990: La Maison d'os by Roland Dubillard
1992: Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse based on the works of Alphonse Allais, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jean Genet, Roland Dubillard, Georges Courteline, Franz Marc
1993: La Pluie d'été by Marguerite Duras
1993: Le soir de l'Obériou - Elizavieta Bam by Daniil Charms
1994: Le Jeune Homme by Jean Audureau
1994: Reviens à toi (encore) by Grégory Motton
1996: L'Illusion comique by Pierre Corneille
2000: Rhinocéros by Eugène Ionesco
2000: La Didone, opera composed by Francesco Cavalli, musical director Christophe Rousset
2001: La Bête dans la jungle adapted by Marguerite Duras, based on the play by James Lord and the novel by Henry James
2002: Savannah Bay by Marguerite Duras
2003: ...Où boivent les vaches by Roland Dubillard
2003: L'Empio punito, opera by Alessandro Melani, musical director Christophe Rousset
2004: Le Jeu du kwi-jok ou Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière, music by Jean-Baptiste Lully
2013: Gates to India Song, based on the works of Marguerite DurasIndia Song and Le Vice-Consul, Festival Bonjour India, Delhi (Residence de France (ambassade)); Kolkata (Tagore House, Rabindra Bharati University); Mumbai (Prithvi Theatre et NCPA)
2013: Orlando, opera composed by George Frideric Handel, musical director Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Théâtre de Lorient
2014: "Tristan" by Éric Vigner
2017: Lukrecia Borxhia, by Victor Hugo, Albanian National Theater, Tirana
2018 : Partage de midi by Paul Claudel, Théâtre National de Strasbourg
The Academy
2011 : La Place Royale by Pierre Corneille, CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient
2011 : Guantanamo by Frank Smith, Centre Dramatique National d'Orléans
