Georges Banu Explained

Georges Banu
Birth Date:1943 6, df=y
Birth Place:Buzău, Romania
Death Place:Paris, France
Nationality:Romanian
French
Occupation:Writer
Theatre critic
Professor
Education:Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film

Georges Banu (22 June 1943 – 21 January 2023) was a Romanian-born French writer, theatre critic, and academic.[1]

Biography

Born in Buzău on 22 June 1943, Banu studied at the Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film. He moved to France in 1973 and became a professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3. He began writing essays on theatre and was notably the author of Théâtre sortie de secours, L'Acteur qui ne revient pas, Notre théâtre, La Cerisaie, L'Homme de dos, and Peter Brook. Vers un théâtre premier.

Banu subsequently became a professor of theatre at the Université catholique de Louvain and was president of the Association internationale des critiques de théâtre from 1994 to 2001. In 1989, he founded the Académie expérimentale des théâtres, which ceased operations in 2001, alongside . He was co-director of the magazine Alternatives théâtrales and director of the Actes Sud collection "Le temps du théâtre".

Banu died on 21 January 2023, at the age of 79.[2]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. News: Tobias. Andreea. 21 January 2023. A murit unul dintre cei mai importanţi critici de teatru din România. Romanian. Mediafax. 23 January 2023.
  2. News: 21 January 2023. La mort de Georges Banu, la mémoire du théâtre. French. sceneweb.fr. 23 January 2023.