Biography

Born in 1952 in Namur (Belgium), Jean-Pierre Dopagne discovered theatre as a child by listening to plays on the radio.

Later, fed on Greek-Latin culture, he studied Romance literatures and took courses at the Louvain Centre of Theatre Studies (Centre d'Etudes Théâtrales de Louvain).

He divides his life between teaching, defending authors' rights and carrying out theatre projects in a school environment. We mustn't forget his passion for baroque music, in particular Jean-Sébastien Bach, to whose work he plays the organ and the harpsichord.

Embarking on writing through adapting the comedies of Dario Fo, he came to wider public recognition through his L'enseigneur (The Teacher), which won the Literature Prize of the Council of the French Speaking Community of Belgium, and has been played ever since more or less throughout the world.

Throughout all his plays Jean-Pierre Dopagne explores the dysfunctionalisms of society and the human soul in a writing which subtly mixes tenderness, cruelty and humour. He aims to lift up the corner of the veil of appearances by throwing into relief all the small trivia which make up the everyday.

Translated into numerous languages (Turkish, Hebrew, Lapp, English, Dutch, Norwegian, Italian, Bulgarian, Spanish, Polish, Romanian etc.), Jean-Pierre Dopagne's plays, published by Lansman, are to be found playing a part in every theatre season, in Belgium and abroad.

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	Biography Born in 1952 in Namur (Belgium), Jean-Pierre Dopagne discovered theatre as a child by listening to plays on the radio. Later, fed on Greek-Latin culture, he studied Romance literatures and took courses at the Louvain Centre of Theatre Studies (Centre d'Etudes Théâtrales de Louvain). He divides his life between teaching, defending authors' rights and carrying out theatre projects in a school environment. We mustn't forget his passion for baroque music, in particular Jean-Sébastien Bach, to whose work he plays the organ and the harpsichord. Embarking on writing through adapting the comedies of Dario Fo, he came to wider public recognition through his L'enseigneur (The Teacher), which won the Literature Prize of the Council of the French Speaking Community of Belgium, and has been played ever since more or less throughout the world. Throughout all his plays Jean-Pierre Dopagne explores the dysfunctionalisms of society and the human soul in a writing which subtly mixes tenderness, cruelty and humour. He aims to lift up the corner of the veil of appearances by throwing into relief all the small trivia which make up the everyday. Translated into numerous languages (Turkish, Hebrew, Lapp, English, Dutch, Norwegian, Italian, Bulgarian, Spanish, Polish, Romanian etc.), Jean-Pierre Dopagne's plays, published by Lansman, are to be found playing a part in every theatre season, in Belgium and abroad.