It was meeting Antoine Vitez at the School of the Théâtre national de Chaillot which oriented Arthur Nauzyciel to the world of theatre, where his studies should have led him to the cinema or the Fine Arts. He becomes an actor and associate artist at the CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient and he founds his own company 41751/Arthur Nauzyciel to become a stage director and begin an adventure to put into play his interrogation of intimacy, memory and transmission.
From his very first show, LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE OU LE SILENCE DE MOLIERE (THE IMAGINARY INVALID OR THE SILENCE OF MOLIERE), in which Molière’s daughter intervenes, he combines the innocent view of a child with the lurking presence of death, asserting a strong and disturbing vision of this classic we think we all know. Placing texts in new and unexpected contexts marks the work of Arthur Nauzyciel. He chooses to root his theatre elsewhere and to never reproduce a style or technique. For every creation, he gathers a team of loyal artists from different artistic universes.
In 2003, he stages OH LES BEAUX JOURS (HAPPY DAYS) by Samuel Beckett with Marilù Marini. The performance was presented at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe in Paris and at the Theatre San Martin of Buenos Aires. In 2004, he directed Place des Héros (Heldenplatz), marking the introduction of Thomas Bernhard into the Comédie-Française repertoire.
Since 2001, he has frequently worked in the United States, created in Atlanta Bernard-Marie Koltès’ BLACK BATTLE WITH DOGS (COMBAT DE NÈGRE ET DE CHIENS) (2001, shown in Chicago in 2004, at the festivals of Avignon and Athens in 2006 and at the CDN in Orléans and deSingel in Antwerp in 2009) and ROBERTO ZUCCO, giving these two plays by Koltès translated into English a new strength, danger and violence. In Boston, he directs at the American Repertory Theater Mike Leigh’s ABIGAIL’S PARTY (2007) and Shakespeare’s JULIUS CAESAR (2008), setting this tragedy in the Kennedy era of the sixties. In 2009 at the CDN in Orléans and in the Autumn festival of Paris, he presents for the first time in France JULIUS CAESAR created with a cast of American actors and a jazz trio. It still tours in France and abroad.
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It is in Dublin that he directs L’IMAGE (THE IMAGE) by Samuel Beckett for the opening of the Beckett Centenary festival in 2006. Created with the choreographer Damien Jalet and the actress Anne Brochet, this performance/reading was designed to travel and to be recreated in the countries where it is invited. It has been performed in Reykjavik in 2007 and in New York in 2008 with the actress Lou Doillon. In France, it has been shown at the CDN in Orléans and the Ménagerie de verre in Paris for the festival “Etrange Cargo” in 2011.
In 2008, at the Avignon festival he staged ORDET (THE WORD) by Kaj Munk at the Cloître des Carmes. The performance was reprised at the Théâtre du Rond-Point for the Autumn festival of Paris in 2009. It is with the translation of ORDET (THE WORD) that a close collaboration between Arthur Nauzyciel and writer Marie Darrieussecq began. Associate writer of the CDN, she writes her first play, LE MUSEE DE LA MER (THE SEA MUSEUM) for him which he directs at the National Theatre of Iceland in Reykjavik in 2009. She assists the artistic project of the CDN Orléans/Loiret/Centre which he has directed since 2007 writing a book every year gathering texts, photographies and drawings of
each show, capturing the spirit of each season.
He has been invited by Franco Quadri to direct a project with young European actors within L’Ecole des Maîtres: he staged A DOLL’S HOUSE by Ibsen, performed in Liège, Reims, Rome and Lisbon in autumn 2009.
In July 2011, he created JAN KARSKI (MY NAME IS A FICTION) based on the novel by Yannick Haenel for the opening of the Avignon festival. The play is reprised in Orléans in octobre 2011 and will tour thoughtaout France during the 2011-2012 season. In November 2011, he will stage RED WATERS, the first opera composed by the duo Lady & Bird (singer Keren Ann Zeidel and musician Bardi Johannsson).
He was a Villa Medicis Hors-les-Murs scholar.
Whether they are created in Orléans where he has been director of the Centre Dramatique National Orléans/Loiret/Centre since 2007 or abroad, the plays created by Arthur Nauzyciel work for a theatre that speaks of today without forgetting the shadows of the past.
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© Frédéric Nauczyciel
> The Sea Museum (2009)
> Ordet (The Word) (2008)
> Julius Caesar (2008)
> The Image (2006)
> Place des héros (2004)
> Oh les beaux jours (2003)
> Black Battles With Dogs (2001)
> The Imaginary Invalid or the silence of Molière (1999)
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