Gain L'Operette Imaginaire: Theatre Compiled By Valère Novarina Print

playwright, theatre theoretician and painter Valère Novarina was born in Chêne Bougeries near Geneva, Switzerland, in, The son of the architect Maurice Novarina and the actress Manon Trolliet spent his childhood and youth in Thonon les Bains in the region of Haute Savoie, before he moved to Paris to study Philosophy and Philology at the Sorbonne.
In, Novarina became an author, and he has written almost daily ever since, His first play Latelier volant tr: The flying studio was produced by Jean Pierre Sarrazac and first performed in, Sincehe has produced almost all his premieres, including La Scène tr: The stage and LActe inconnu tr: The unknown act at the Festival dAutomne à Paris or the Festival dAvi The playwright, theatre theoretician and painter Valère Novarina was born in Chêne Bougeries near Geneva, Switzerland, in.
The son of the architect Maurice Novarina and the actress

Manon Trolliet spent his childhood and youth in Thonon les Bains in the region of Haute Savoie, before he moved to Paris to study Philosophy and Philology at the Sorbonne.
In, Novarina became an author, and he has written almost daily ever since, His first play Latelier volant tr: The flying studio was produced by Jean Pierre Sarrazac and first performed in, Sincehe has produced almost all his premieres, including La Scène tr: The stage and LActe inconnu tr: The unknown act at the Festival dAutomne à Paris or the Festival dAvignon, and most recently Le vrai Sang tr: True blood at the Odéon Théâtre de lEurope in Paris.
Art Brut inspires Novarinas works, and he has rightly been labelled the unique voice of the French theatre, His texts are full of references to the circus, to clowns, funfairs and the Japanese Nō theatre, They follow traditions from François Rabelais to Alfred Jarry, Patrice Chéreau has praised him as the most important contemporary dramatist in France after the late Bernard Marie Koltès, Novarinas style is characterized by neologisms and enumerations, His grammar is non conventional, his pieces incorporate childrens verses and impromptu poetry, they quote advertising and political slogans, and sayings, Novarina excessively uses what ever language offers, and in doing so creates his own and very particular lingo, the mere function of which goes far beyond mere communication.
His book Lumières du corps, tr: The Light of the Body featuresfragments pondering upon drama, space, and the spoken word, With a reference to Antonin Artaud, Novarina focuses on the body as the centre of theatrical presentation, La chair de lhomme tr: The Flesh of Man including: Au dieu inconnu, tr: To the unknown God was published inand is, withpages, the largest of his works so far.
In Au dieu inconnu, the artist tries to prove Gods existence by means of the theatre and, thus, tries to capture at the boundary of all imagination the unspeakable in words.
For this purpose he quotes authors from Antiquity until today, mystics and clerics representing different religions, believers and agnostics, and takes a stand in view of the new modern religiosity, which he tends to see an adventure of the human linguistic capacity than as an ideology.
Three feature films are based on texts by Valère Novarina, including Jean Luc Godards Nouvelle vague, His plays have been part of the repertoire of the Comédie Française since, He received the Prix Marguerite Duras for LOrigine Rougetr: The Red Origin in, and the Grand Prix du Théâtre de lAcadémie française.
Valère Novarina lives in Paris and his chalet in Haute Savoie, literaturfestival sitelink.