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Sylvain Dhomme

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  • Born
    November 30, 1918 · Paris, France
  • Died
    March 12, 2013 · Cheval-Blanc, Vaucluse, France

Biography

  • Sylvain Dhomme was an award winning young theater person who connected with the as yet not well known Romanian playwright Eugene Ionesco in Paris and managed to land the task of directing The Chairs for its 1952 premiere.Even if it did not turn out exactly as the author intended, Dhomme continued his adaptations of the theater of the absurd with a German television version of The Bald Soprano and a segment of the mostly New Wave film compilation of 1962, The Seven Deadly Sins, on Anger, loosely based also on Ionesco .Later in his eclectic career as writer, actor, and director, Dhomme made several programs on avant-garde composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Schaeffer.
    - IMDb mini biography by: Lawrence Chadbourne

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  • Also author, critic, stage director, as such he was part of the creation of 'Les Chaises' by Ionesco in 1952 in Paris.

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