Armand Abplanalp

Biography

Armand Abplanalp was a Swiss actor, painter, and photographer born in Lausanne in 1930. He co-founded the theatrical company Faux-Nez in 1953, which introduced Ionesco and Beckett to post-war Lausanne. He later returned to Lausanne and staged the 1964 national Swiss exhibition's first production, "L'œuf de coque", and reprised his 1953 production of Hamlet in 1998, fifty years later.