Jacques Copeau

1879–1949 (age 70)

Biography

Jacques Copeau (1879–1949) renewed French theatre with a vision rooted in simplicity, insisting on earnest acting and communal creation as he nurtured generations of performers.

He rests beneath the vines of the cimetière de Pernand-Vergelesses, a site where admirers honor his devotion to craft and the timelessness of his theatrical reforms.

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