Portrait of Dominique Blanchar and Jean Richar, captured by Brassa\u00ef backstage at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de l'Ath\u00e9n\u00e9e during preparations for L'\u00c9cole des femmes. Photographer's stamp on the back: \"BRASSA\u00cf \/ 61, rue du Faubrd St-Jacques \/ PARIS XIVe \/ T\u00c9L\u00c9PH : PORT-ROYAL 23-41\".<\/p>\n
In 1936, Louis Jouvet, director of the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de l'Ath\u00e9n\u00e9e, created one of the first modern adaptations of The School for Wives<\/em>. Although he had been planning to stage Moli\u00e8re's play for nearly 14 years, Jouvet was stymied by the problem of scenery. Christian B\u00e9rard stepped in and, in addition to designing costumes in a new style, designed a mobile mechanical set that would divide the stage space into two different areas. Portrait of Dominique Blanchar and Jean Richar, captured by Brassa\u00ef backstage at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de l'Ath\u00e9n\u00e9e during preparations for L'\u00c9cole des femmes. Photographer's stamp on the back: \"BRASSA\u00cf \/ 61, rue du Faubrd St-Jacques \/ PARIS XIVe \/ T\u00c9L\u00c9PH : PORT-ROYAL 23-41\" In 1936, Louis Jouvet, director of the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de l'Ath\u00e9n\u00e9e, created L'\u00c9cole de femmes.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"boutique":[199],"cat_gallery":[1932],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[76,23],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-16497","product","type-product","status-publish","theme-arts","artistes-brassai","auteurs-blanchar_dominique","boutique-galerie","catalogue-024-dominique-blanchar","cat_gallery-photographies","categories_art-photographies","categories_art-portrait","forme_dart-photographie","product_cat-photographie","product_cat-theatre","first","outofstock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/16497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"boutique","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/boutique?post=16497"},{"taxonomy":"cat_gallery","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_gallery?post=16497"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=16497"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=16497"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=16497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nInitially Madeleine Ozeray played the lead role. But in 1946, Louis Jouvet spotted Dominique, known as \"Minou\" Blanchar, and gave her the role of Agn\u00e8s. She played the role until the death of the director (who continued to play Arnolphe) in August 1951.
\nWith 675 performances between 1936 and 1951, the production quickly achieved mythical status. In 2001-2003, the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de l'Ath\u00e9n\u00e9e commissioned Jacques Lasalle to direct a tribute production of The School for Wives<\/em> using B\u00e9rard's decor.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"