Georges Banu

Theater and Exile Georges Banu

The theater is attached to a language and an audience, but despite this, artists. In spite of this, important artists of the 20th century have gone into exile to escape dictatorships or to seek other cultures. From particular examples, borrowed especially from the Romanian scene and from the destinies of famous actors who played elsewhere than in their country, Georges Banu questions this acute question of modern history: the theater and the exile. Georges Banu left Romania and was sensitive to the presence of foreign artists in France. He teaches at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and is the author of numerous works on the great figures of stage direction, from Peter Brook to Patrice Chéreau and Krzysztof Warlikowski, as well as on the relationship between theater and painting.