André Antoine was a French actor, theatre manager, film director, author, and critic who is considered the father of modern mise en scène in France.
Antoine c. 1900, published in 1908
Plaque dedicated to the Théâtre Libre, its actor-director André Antoine, and its performers in Montmartre, Paris
Theatrical tour poster, 1903
Le Théâtre Antoine, boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris
Mise-en-scène is the stage design and arrangement of actors in scenes for a theatre or film production, both in the visual arts through storyboarding, visual themes, and cinematography and in narrativ
André Antoine
…31 January 1858 – 23 October 1943) was a French actor, theatre manager, film director, author, and critic who is considered the father of modern mise en scène in France. André Antoine was a clerk at the Paris Gas Utility and worked in the Archer Theatre when he asked to produce a dramatization of a novel by…
The distinctive mise-en-scène of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Germany, 1920) features jagged architecture.
Mise en scène by Constant Puyo