Jean Lambert-wild
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| Born | 1972 (age 44–45) Réunion |
| Occupation | Theatre director, playwright, actor, scenographer |
| Nationality | French |
| Notable awards | 2014: Appointed Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication |
Jean Lambert-wild is a theatre-maker and theatre director born in 1972 in Réunion. He is the artistic director of Theatre de l'Union – Centre Dramatique National du Limousin, and the director of L'Académie de l'Union, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Théâtre du Limousin.
In 1979, his father, who was a livestock farmer, created the farming cooperative Sica Révia. In 2012, the cooperative was composed of 323 livestock farmers. As a child, Jean Lambert-wild experienced the creation of this cooperative as an initiatory event, which mythology continues to influence several of his projects. At the time, all he dreamed of was “the sea, Conrad and pirates”. After several extravagant attempts to escape the island during his adolescence, he eventually moved to mainland France in 1990. He settled in Lyon and started studying for a BA in Philosophy at Lyon III University. It is there that André Arcellaschi, his Latin lecturer, incited him to direct plays by Plautus, Seneca the Younger and Gombrowicz. He considered joining the Merchant Navy, but shortly before saw a production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters by German director Matthias Langhoff. This production had a strong impact on Lambert-wild, who realised that theatre was the medium that would give him the freedom he had been looking for.
Lambert-wild learned his craft assisting several different theatre directors. First, Michel Dubois, who, having found an interest in Lambert-wild’s writings, invited him to work at La Comédie de Caen. From the role of apprentice, he moved on to become assistant director, thus progressively acquiring the basic tenets of his theatrical vocabulary. He then became the assistant of Jean-Yves Lazennec, Philippe Goyard and more prominently Matthias Langhoff, whom he assisted for several years.
In 1990, he wrote and directed Grande Lessive de Printemps (Great Spring Clean), which premiered at Espace 44 in Lyon. This was the beginning of his Hypogeum, a complex body of work that Lambert-wild constructs over the course of his lifetime.
The Hypogeum is composed of three Confessions, three Threnodies, three Epics, two Exclusions, one Dithyramb and 326 “Calentures”.
Over the years, Lambert-wild has created a fantasised autobiography that nurtures his work for the stage. This is recurrently present in the Ecmnesia and the Calentures.
The Ecmnesia is composed of the Confessions, the Threnodies and the Epics of the Hypogeum, along with other large-scale projects that aren’t included in the Hypogeum.
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