ABSTRACT
Ariane Mnouchkine cultivates obvious paradoxes. Too many women are mixed up in her: the leader of a theatre company who founds with her student pals from the Sorbonne in 1964 the workers’ cooperative of the Théâtre du Soleil and the writer-poet of sweet and luminous phrases; the flamboyant filmmaker of Molière and the meticulous caretaker of the Cartoucherie who can’t delegate anything; the visionary director and the actors’ nurse-confessor; the educator and the gourmande; the general and the little girl; the militant and the hedonist; the saint and the adventuress. [. . .] a character out of the ordinary for a company out of the normal! An out-of-the-ordinary story.
