French playwright and theater director (1885–1952)
Gaston Baty
Born
26 May 1885 (1885-05-26)
Died
13 October 1952 (1952-10-14) (aged 67)
Occupation(s)
Playwright and theatre director
Gaston Baty (26 May 1885 – 13 October 1952), whose full name was Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty, was a French playwright and
theatre director. He was born in
Pélussin, Loire, France.
Career
In 1921, Baty formed his own company Les Compagnons de la Chimère [The Companions of the Chimera],[1]:157 which mounted productions in a variety of Parisian theatres in the 1920s and 30s.[2]:2 He was also a member of Le Cartel des Quatre [The Cartel of Four], a group of four directors in Paris who offered an alternative to both "academic and commercial theatre".[3]:178 His stage adaptation of
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary was presented in an English translation on
Broadway in 1937.
Constance Cummings played the title role.[4] Baty is also the author of a play entitled Dulcinea, which has been filmed twice and produced on television in 1989. It is an original play that takes its inspiration from
Miguel de Cervantes's great novel Don Quixote and uses some of its characters. The
second film version, made in 1963, starred
Millie Perkins as
Dulcinea, and was released in the U.S. as The Girl from La Mancha. He wrote Vie de l'art théatral, des origines a nos jours in 1932 with René Chavance.
Theater director
1919: La Grande Pastorale by Charles Hellem and Pol d'Estoc,
Cirque d'hiver
1947: * L'Amour des trois oranges by
Alexandre Arnoux, Théâtre Montparnasse
1948: Sapho by
Alphonse Daudet and Auguste Bélot, Comédie-Française
1948: La Langue des femmes by Jean-Baptiste Marie and La Marjolaine by Gaston Baty, puppets by Gaston Baty, Salle des Archives Internationales de la danse
1948: Au temps où Berthe filait by Marcel Fabry, puppets by Gaston Baty, Salle des Archives Internationales de la danse
French playwright and theater director (1885–1952)
Gaston Baty
Born
26 May 1885 (1885-05-26)
Died
13 October 1952 (1952-10-14) (aged 67)
Occupation(s)
Playwright and theatre director
Gaston Baty (26 May 1885 – 13 October 1952), whose full name was Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty, was a French playwright and
theatre director. He was born in
Pélussin, Loire, France.
Career
In 1921, Baty formed his own company Les Compagnons de la Chimère [The Companions of the Chimera],[1]:157 which mounted productions in a variety of Parisian theatres in the 1920s and 30s.[2]:2 He was also a member of Le Cartel des Quatre [The Cartel of Four], a group of four directors in Paris who offered an alternative to both "academic and commercial theatre".[3]:178 His stage adaptation of
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary was presented in an English translation on
Broadway in 1937.
Constance Cummings played the title role.[4] Baty is also the author of a play entitled Dulcinea, which has been filmed twice and produced on television in 1989. It is an original play that takes its inspiration from
Miguel de Cervantes's great novel Don Quixote and uses some of its characters. The
second film version, made in 1963, starred
Millie Perkins as
Dulcinea, and was released in the U.S. as The Girl from La Mancha. He wrote Vie de l'art théatral, des origines a nos jours in 1932 with René Chavance.
Theater director
1919: La Grande Pastorale by Charles Hellem and Pol d'Estoc,
Cirque d'hiver
1947: * L'Amour des trois oranges by
Alexandre Arnoux, Théâtre Montparnasse
1948: Sapho by
Alphonse Daudet and Auguste Bélot, Comédie-Française
1948: La Langue des femmes by Jean-Baptiste Marie and La Marjolaine by Gaston Baty, puppets by Gaston Baty, Salle des Archives Internationales de la danse
1948: Au temps où Berthe filait by Marcel Fabry, puppets by Gaston Baty, Salle des Archives Internationales de la danse