Jean-Luc Lagarce

He was a cofounder of the Théâtre de La Roulotte in 1978, directing productions of playwrights such as Pierre de Marivaux, Eugène Marin Labiche and Eugène Ionesco before beginning to stage his own plays. Some of his early plays were criticized as derivative of Ionesco or Samuel Beckett. Although some of his plays were published by Théâtre Ouvert or recorded as radio dramas, only a few of them were ever staged during his lifetime. He also published a volume of short stories, wrote an opera libretto and a film screenplay, and cofounded the publishing company Les Solitaires intempestifs. This led to many productions overseas, such as the Brazilian version of Music-Hall by Luiz Päetow, which won the Theatre Shell Award in 2010. In 2015, film director Xavier Dolan adapted Lagarce's Juste la fin du monde into the film It's Only the End of the World, which won the Grand Prix and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Le pays lointain was produced at theatre Odeon, Paris in 2019.

• Name — Jean-Luc Lagarce • Born — 14 February 1957 • Birthplace — Héricourt, Haute-Saône, France • Died — 30 September 1995 • Place of death — 14th arrondissement, Paris • Occupation — playwright, theatre director • Period — 1970s-1990s • Notable Works — Juste la fin du monde

• La bonne de chez Ducatel, 1977 • Erreur de construction, 1977 • Carthage, encore, 1978 • La Place de l'autre, 1979 • Voyage de Madame Knipper vers la Prusse Orientale, 1980 • Ici ou ailleurs, 1981 • Les Serviteurs, 1981 • Noce, 1982 • Vagues souvenirs de l'année de la peste, 1982 • Hollywood, 1983 • Histoire d'amour (repérages), 1983 • Retour à la citadelle, 1984 • Les Orphelins, 1984 • De Saxe, roman, 1985 • La Photographie, 1986 • Derniers remords avant l'oubli, 1987 • Les Solitaires intempestifs, 1987 • Music-hall, 1988 • Les Prétendants, 1989 • Juste la fin du monde, 1990 • Histoire d'amour (derniers chapitres), 1990 • Les règles du savoir-vivre dans la société moderne, 1993 • Nous, les héros, 1993 • Nous, les héros (version sans le père), 1993 • J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne, 1994 • Le Pays lointain, 1995

• Trois récits, 1994, a collection of three short stories

• Quichotte, 1989, libretto for a jazz opera by Mike Westbrook • Retour à l'automne, screenplay cowritten with Gérard Bouysse

• Théâtre et Pouvoir en Occident, a study of how dramatists have contended with political power, from Ancient Greece to the middle of the twentieth century • Journal, volume 1: 1977–1990, volume 2: 1990–1995