Soleil has been shaped both by ideals that spill over from the 1960s and Ms Mnouchkine's personal and intensely sensuous approach to drama.
ECONOMIST: French theatre
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Ms Mnouchkine's broad epic style and meticulous attention to detail bring together her fascination with traditional eastern drama and a wholly untheatrical interest in wider political issues.
ECONOMIST: French theatre
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The music is all the more important in that Mnouchkine productions are worked out like choreographies: Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, an actress who has been with her for more than ten years, started off as a dancer.