The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria (French : L'Architecte et l'Empereur d'Assyrie) is a 1967 play by Fernando Arrabal. [1] It was produced by the Stratford Festival in 1970.
Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", or "half-expatriate, half-exiled".
Julius (Jules) Oppert was a French-German Assyriologist, born in Hamburg of Jewish parents.
Gustavo Charif is an Argentine writer, visual artist and film director. His works are a sort of Dadaism mixed with the secular poetry of actual times.
Georges Corraface is a French actor of Greek descent, born on December 7, 1952, in Paris, France. He performed in film and television, following many years in French theatre, notably as a member of the International Center for Theatre Research under the direction of Peter Brook in the Peter Brook Company. His notable film credits include To Tama, Escape from L.A., La Pasión Turca, Vive La Mariée, Impromptu, Christopher Columbus, A Touch of Spice, and a feature film debut in The Mahabharata. His most popular television appearances include La Bicyclette Bleue, L'Été Rouge in France, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in the USA and Drifting Cities in Greece.
Father Jean-Vincent Scheil was a French Dominican scholar and Assyriologist. He is credited as the discoverer of the Code of Hammurabi in Persia. In 1911 he came into possession of the Scheil dynastic tablet and first translated it. After being ordained in 1887, he took courses in Egyptology and Assyriology at the École des Hautes Études, and was a student at the Collège de France, where he was a pupil of Assyriologist Julius Oppert. In 1890/91 as a member of the French Archaeological Mission of Cairo, he took part in excavations at Thebes. In 1892 he conducted excavations near Baghdad for the Ottoman Imperial Museum, followed by work in Constantinople, where he was tasked with classifying and drafting a catalog of Assyrian, Chaldean and Egyptian antiquities of the museum.
Yves Claude Vinh-San, also Prince Nguyen Phuc Bảo Vàng,, was a French jazz musician and a son of Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân and Fernande Antier, a French-born woman who was Duy Tan's third wife. He published a jazz album entitled Claude Vinh San et le jazz tropical. He was born in Saint-Denis, Réunion Island.
Panic Movement was an art collective formed by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Roland Topor in Paris in 1962. Inspired by and named after the god Pan, and influenced by Luis Buñuel and Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty, the group concentrated on chaotic and surreal performance art, as a response to surrealism becoming mainstream.
The Open Fist Theatre is both a 501(c)(3) non-profit theatre company. Originally operating a 99-seat theatre facility in Theatre Row Hollywood located at 6209 Santa Monica Blvd, it is now in residence at the Atwater Village Theatre. The name of the Open Fist Theatre Company comes from two principles: the notion of an open spirit and the fist - a sign of determination and force.
Mika'ela Fisher, also known as Mika'Ela Fisher or Mikaela Fisher, is a German film director, writer, producer, actress, model, and master tailor. She gained recognition as an actor for her role in the movie Tell No One. In 2013 she produced and directed her first short film, Die Tapferen Haende im Chaos der Zeit.
Baron Charles Frédéric Chassériau du Chiron was a Saint Dominican architect and painter, who served as chief architect of the cities of Marseille, Algiers, in Algeria; and Cairo, in Egypt. He is particularly known for having designed the seafront of the city of Algiers.
Rudy Ricciotti is a French architect and publisher.
Étienne de Bonneuil, also Estienne de Bonnueill, was a French master builder or architect in the second half of the 13th century. He is remembered for participating in the design and construction of Uppsala Cathedral.
Édouard Paul Dhorme was a French Assyriologist, Semitologist and translator of the Bible.
Arthur Amiaud was a French Assyriologist and philologist.
"L'Empereur, sa femme et le petit prince" is a French folk song of the second half of the 19th century, making a reference to Napoleon III, Empress Eugénie and the Prince impérial.
Joseph Étienne Gautier was a French archaeologist.
L'architecte textile is a 2017 French documentary feature film directed by Mika'ela Fisher about sartorial art.
The Emperor of Paris is a 2018 French historical drama film directed by Jean-François Richet and written by Éric Besnard and Richet.
Michael Thalheimer is a German theatre director.
Olivier-Clément Cacoub,, was a French architect of Tunisian-Jewish origin, known for working in the International Style and Brutalism.