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Sean Tennant
Repository
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center
Contains nearly 400 black and white photographs documenting Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud's career in the theatre
in France between 1947 and 1979.
Barrault, born in France in 1910, was an esteemed and innovative fixture in French theatre and film for five decades from
the 1930s to 1980s. He trained as a mime and an actor, and later directed both screen and stage productions. With Madeleine
Renaud, his wife, he founded a theatrical company in Paris in 1947, after acting and directing with the Comédie Française.
Barrault later directed the Théâtre d'Orsay and the Théâtre des Nations.
The collection contains photographs documenting Barrault and Renaud's career in the theatre in France between 1947 and 1979.
Most images are production stills of performances at the Théâtre d'Orsay, Théâtre de France Odéon, and other venues, but the
collection also includes images of Barrault and his contemporaries off-stage. Madeleine Renaud is, after himself, the most
frequently photographed. Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Jean Genet are among the notable theatrical figures documented.
The Special Collections Research Center also holds records on the Arena Stage and the Federal Theatre Project as well as many
personal collections of theater papers and photographs.
Series 1 contains photographs from the collection dealing with specific theatrical productions and events. The photographs
are organized alphabetically by production title and chronologically within each folder.
folder box: 1 folder: 1
65eme Anniversaire
September 8, 1975
Scope and Contents note
3 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 2
Ainsi Parlait Zarathustra
November 1974
Scope and Contents note
13 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 3
Amphitryon
1947-October 1961
Scope and Contents note
9 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 4
Andromaque
November 1962
Scope and Contents note
4 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 5
Bacchus
1951
Scope and Contents note
3 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 6
Baptiste
1946-December 1959
Scope and Contents note
8 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 7
Christophe Colomb
October 1953-September 1975
Scope and Contents note
16 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 8
Conférence Spectacles Claudel Dramaurgie
January 16, 1968
Scope and Contents note
2 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 9
Des Journées Entières dans les arbres
November 1965
Scope and Contents note
2 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 10
Delicate Balance
November 1967
Scope and Contents note
6 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 11
Elisabeth d'Angleterre
1949
Scope and Contents note
1 photograph
folder box: 1 folder: 12
Gala Georges le Roy
1949
Scope and Contents note
3 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 13
Gala Jacques Copeau
1949
Scope and Contents note
3 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 14
Hamlet
1946
Scope and Contents note
6 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 15
Harold et Maude
November 1973-October 1974
Scope and Contents note
9 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 16
Il Faut Passar Par Les Nuages
October 1964
Scope and Contents note
5 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 17
Inauguration de la Place Paul Claudel
April 1966
Scope and Contents note
1 photograph
folder box: 1 folder: 18
Inauguration de nouveau plafond peintr par André Masson
November 1965
Scope and Contents note
2 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 19
Inauguration du théâtre d'Orsay
March 1974
Scope and Contents note
16 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 20
Jarry sur la Butte
October 1970
Scope and Contents note
13 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 21
Jules César
October 1960
Scope and Contents note
4 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 22
La Cerisaie
December 1954
Scope and Contents note
3 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 23
La Lacune
February 1966
Scope and Contents note
1 photograph
folder box: 1 folder: 24
La Mère
November 1970
Scope and Contents note
1 photograph
folder box: 1 folder: 25
La Nuit a sa Clarté
October 1962
Scope and Contents note
5 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 26
Le Petit Molière
November 1959
Scope and Contents note
6 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 27
La Révélation
March 1962
Scope and Contents note
3 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 28
La Seconde Suprise de L'Amour
1949
Scope and Contents note
4 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 29
La Tentation de Saint Antoine
March 1967
Scope and Contents note
4 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 30
La Vie Parisienne
November 1958
Scope and Contents note
7 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 31
L'Amante Anglaise
February 1971-September 1976
Scope and Contents note
2 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 32
Lazare
1951
Scope and Contents note
1 photograph
folder box: 1 folder: 33
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
December 1972
Scope and Contents note
1 photograph
folder box: 1 folder: 34
Le Chien du Jardinier
1955
Scope and Contents note
4 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 35
Le Dragon
June 1964
Scope and Contents note
1 photograph
folder box: 1 folder: 36
Le Misanthrope
December 1954
Scope and Contents note
1 photograph
folder box: 1 folder: 37
Le Partage de Midi
February 1949-September 1961
Scope and Contents note
11 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 38
Le Personnage Combattant
January 1956-September 1971
Scope and Contents note
7 photographs
folder box: 1 folder: 39
Le Pi+0233ton de l'Air
January 1963
Scope and Contents note
14 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 1
Le Procès
January 1948-October 1961
Scope and Contents note
12 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 2
Le Songe Des Prisonniers
1954
Scope and Contents note
1 photograph
folder box: 2 folder: 3
Le Soulier de Satin
December 1958
Scope and Contents note
6 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 4
Le Viol de Lucrèce
January 1961
Scope and Contents note
1 photograph
folder box: 2 folder: 5
Le Voyage
February 1961
Scope and Contents note
1 photograph
folder box: 2 folder: 6
L'échange
December 1951
Scope and Contents note
6 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 7
Les Fausses Confidences
1946-December 1959
Scope and Contents note
3 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 8
Les Fourberies de Scapin
February 1949-January 1963
Scope and Contents note
11 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 9
Les Nuits Des Paris
December 1975
Scope and Contents note
2 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 10
Les Paravents
April 1966
Scope and Contents note
12 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 11
Les Suites d'une Course
1955
Scope and Contents note
9 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 12
L'état de siège
November 1948
Scope and Contents note
7 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 13
L'exposition de Paul Claudel
October 1963
Scope and Contents note
4 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 14
L'Orestie d'Eschyle
June 1954-January 1962
Scope and Contents note
10 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 15
Malatesta
1950
Scope and Contents note
7 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 16
Malborough s'en va t el Guerre
1949
Scope and Contents note
10 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 17
Numance
November 1965
Scope and Contents note
5 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 18
Cccupé Toi D'Amélie
November 1960
Scope and Contents note
7 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 19
Oh Les Beaux Jours
October 1963-February 1970
Scope and Contents note
16 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 20
Où Boivent les Vaches
November 1972
Scope and Contents note
2 photographs
folder box: 2 folder: 21
Pour Lucrèce
March 1954
Scope and Contents note
1 photograph
folder box: 2 folder: 22
Premier anniversaire de l'ouverture du Théâtre d'Orsay
Series 2 contains the nonproduction photographs, such as publicity photographs, images of rehearsals, and pictures of playbills
and signs. The photographs are arranged chronologically within each folder.
folder box: 2 folder: 35
Rehearsal Photographs
1947
Scope and Contents note
5 photographs. This folder contains images of Barrault and other actors in rehearsal for various productions.
folder box: 2 folder: 36
Playbills and Signs
1958-November 1974
Scope and Contents note
12 photographs. This folder contains photographs of signage and playbills for the productions of Barrault's company at various
theaters.
folder box: 2 folder: 37
Publicity Photographs
January 1948-October 25, 1976
Scope and Contents note
15 photographs. This folder contains publicity photographs for various actors associated with Barrault and his productions,
such as Barrault, Madeleine Renaud, and Marcel Marceau. Additionally, the folder contains images of a lecture given by Barrault
about his production of Numance.
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