Overview
- Richard Pierre of the Union des contraires told AFP that Novarina died Friday at 83, with TF1 reporting the death occurred at the American Hospital of Neuilly.
- He authored about fifty plays, most published by P.O.L, and his work appeared almost annually at the Festival d'Avignon.
- Starting in 1986 he staged his own productions, bringing his drawing and painting into character design and stage décors.
- His language-driven theatre drew divided reactions, from walkouts at L’Atelier volant in 1974 to a “mini bataille d’Hernani” for Le Drame de la vie at Avignon in 1986.
- Recognitions included the Grand Prix du théâtre from the Académie française in 2007 and the Grand Prix de Littérature Paul Morand in 2020, with a final new staging in 2023 at Paris’s Théâtre de la Colline.