Aurélien-Marie Lugné (27 December 1869 19 June 1940), known by his stage and
pen name Lugné-Poe, was a French actor,
theatre director
A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...
, and scenic designer. He founded the landmark Paris theatre company, the
Théâtre de l'Œuvre
The Théâtre de l'Œuvre is a Paris theatre on the Right Bank, located at 3, Cité Monthiers, entrance 55, rue de Clichy, in the 9° arrondissement. It is commonly conflated and confused with the late-nineteenth-century theater company named Th ...
,
which produced experimental work by French
Symbolist writers and painters at the end of the nineteenth century.
Like his contemporary, theatre pioneer
André Antoine
André Antoine (31 January 185823 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.
Biography
André Antoine was a clerk at the Paris Gas Utilit ...
, he gave the French premieres of works by the leading Scandinavian playwrights
Henrik Ibsen,
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (, ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty p ...
, and
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguishe ...
.
Early career
In 1887, at age 17, Lugné-Poe and friend Georges Bourdon created an amateur theatre group called le Cercle des Escholiers, which sought to perform "unpublished or, at the very least, little-known works." As he prepared to audition for the
Paris Conservatory
The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...
, he changed his name from Lugné to "Lugné-Poe" in homage to
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wid ...
. While the Conservatory rejected his audition in fall 1887, they accepted him in fall 1888; days later he joined
André Antoine
André Antoine (31 January 185823 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.
Biography
André Antoine was a clerk at the Paris Gas Utilit ...
's
Théâtre Libre The Théâtre Libre (French for "Free Theatre") was a theatre company that operated from 1887 to 1896 in Paris, France.
Origins and History
Théâtre Libre was founded on 30 March 1887 by André Antoine. The primary goal of the theatre was ...
, a subscriber-based
Naturalist independent
theatre
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. After appearing in the first play of that season under his own name, Lugné-Poe adopted the
stage names "Philippon," "Delorme," and "Leroy" for the duration of his association with Antoine's company.
Lugné-Poe continued acting lessons at the Conservatory under the great
Comédie-Française
The Comédie-Française () or Théâtre-Français () is one of the few state theatres in France. Founded in 1680, it is the oldest active theatre company in the world. Established as a French state-controlled entity in 1995, it is the only state ...
star
Gustave Worms while appearing in Théâtre Libre's 1888-1889 season and the first half of the next. But tensions grew over the next year as Antoine bullied and blamed his actors, including Lugné-Poe, for weak performances. After their falling out while on tour in Belgium in early 1890, Lugné-Poe concentrated on his Conservatory competition showcases, winning a First-Place certificate for Comedy in early 1890. His obligation to fulfill military service in the fall, however, suspended his theatrical rise. Before his departure, he had already befriended a group of painters known as
The Nabis, and publicized their work in a series of articles.
Returning from an abbreviated military service in early spring 1891, Lugné-Poe joined
Paul Fort
Jules-Jean-Paul Fort (1 February 1872 – 20 April 1960) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. At the age of 18, reacting against the Naturalistic theatre, Fort founded the Théâtre d'Art (1890–93). He also founded and edit ...
's
Théâtre d'Art, first appearing in
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...
's ''
L'Intruse''. For the next two years, he moved regularly between acting for the Théâtre d'Art and directing for his former company Le Cercle des Escholiers. Lugné-Poe performed in ten plays altogether for Fort, interpreting, most notably, the Maeterlinck rôles of the Old Man in ''L'Intruse'' (1891) and the First Blind Man in ''
Les Aveugles'' (1891), as well as Satan in Jules Bois' ''Les Noces de Sathan'' (1892). He, along with Georgette Camée, forged the signature Symbolist acting style that conveys a reverie, with its hieratic movement and gestures, matched with solemn, psalmodized line readings. After the disappointing plays of the March 28, 1892 program, Fort called a halt to the Théâtre d'Art. Lugné-Poe put his talents to staging and acting in noteworthy plays with the Cercle des Escholiers, which culminated with Ibsen's ''
The Lady from the Sea
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'' (1892). It was only the fourth French-translated Ibsen play to open in Paris, after Antoine's landmark productions of
''Ghosts'' in 1890 and ''
The Wild Duck
''The Wild Duck'' (original Norwegian title: ''Vildanden'') is an 1884 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It is considered the first modern masterpiece in the genre of tragicomedy. ''The Wild Duck'' and ''Rosmersholm'' are "often ...
'' in 1891, and
Albert Carré's production of ''
Hedda Gabler
''Hedda Gabler'' () is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The world premiere was staged on 31 January 1891 at the Residenztheater in Munich. Ibsen himself was in attendance, although he remained back-stage. The play has been ca ...
'' in December 1891. When Lugné-Poe reconstituted the Théâtre d'Art as the
Théâtre de l'Œuvre
The Théâtre de l'Œuvre is a Paris theatre on the Right Bank, located at 3, Cité Monthiers, entrance 55, rue de Clichy, in the 9° arrondissement. It is commonly conflated and confused with the late-nineteenth-century theater company named Th ...
in 1893, he would make Ibsen his specialty in Paris theatre, premiering (and often starring in) nine Ibsen plays between 1893 and 1897.
Théâtre de l'Œuvre
Like Paul Fort before him, Lugné-Poe never secured a permanent stage for the entire run of his company's initial art-theatre experiment. The Théâtre de l'Œuvre debuted with Maeterlinck's ''
Pelléas et Mélisande'' for a single matinée performance at the
Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens
The Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens () is a Parisian theatre founded in 1855 by the composer Jacques Offenbach for the performance of opéra bouffe and operetta. The current theatre is located in the 2nd arrondissement at 4 rue Monsigny with a ...
in May 1893, but the six engagements in his next season occurred at the distant
Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
The Bouffes du Nord is a theatre at 37 bis, boulevard de la Chapelle, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris located near the Gare du Nord. It has been listed since 1993 as a ''monument historique'' by the French Ministry of Culture.
History
Founde ...
, where he premiered Ibsen's ''
Rosmersholm
''Rosmersholm'' () is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in Danish—the common written language of Denmark and Norway at the time—and originally published in 1886 in Copenhagen by the Danish publisher Gyldendal. ''Rosmersholm'' ...
'', ''
An Enemy of the People'', and ''
The Master Builder
''The Master Builder'' ( no, Bygmester Solness) is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
It was first published in December 1892 and is regarded as one of Ibsen's more significant and revealing works.
Performance
The play was published ...
'', Gerhart Hauptmann's ''Lonely Lives'', and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's ''Beyond Human Power'', among others. For the May 1894 production of
Henri Bataille
Félix-Henri "Henry" Bataille (4 April 1872, in Nîmes – 2 March 1922, in Rueil-Malmaison) was a French dramatist and poet. His works were popular between 1900 and the start of World War I.
Bataille's parents died when he was young. He atten ...
and
Robert d'Humières
Aymeric Eugène Robert d’Humières (2 March 1868 – 26 April 1915) was a French man of letters, poet, chronicler, translator and theatre director.
Biography
Robert d'Humières was born on 2 March 1868 at the Château de Conros, Arpajon-sur- ...
' ''Sleeping Beauty'', he secured
Nouveau-Théâtre's space for the first time. Though he concluded the season with
August Strindberg
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's ''
Creditors
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'' at the newly built Comédie-Parisienne (later known as
Louis Jouvet's
Théâtre de l'Athénée), he quickly assumed the directorship of Nouveau-Théâtre for most of the 1894-95 season. There he premiered Maeterlinck's adaptation of
John Ford
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's ''
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
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'' (''Annabella''), Beaubourg's ''The Mute Voice'', Strindberg's ''
The Father'',
Śūdraka's ''
The Little Clay Cart'', and Maeterlinck's ''
Interior'', among others. While his May 1895 productions (including Ibsen's ''
Little Eyolf
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'') were staged at the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs, he returned to Nouveau-Théâtre to conclude the season with Ibsen's ''
Brand
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''.
The 1895-96 season found residence at two locations. Lugné-Poe staged the first half of the season back at the Comédie-Parisienne, with a line-up that included
Thomas Otway
Thomas Otway (3 March 165214 April 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for '' Venice Preserv'd'', or ''A Plot Discover'd'' (1682).
Life
Otway was born at Trotton near Midhurst, the parish of which his fathe ...
's ''
Venice Preserved'',
Kālidāsa's ''
The Ring of Shakuntalā'', and
Oscar Wilde's ''
Salome''.
The second half, however, starting in March 1896, began over two-years' residency for the Théâtre de l'Œuvre at Nouveau-Théâtre. Most notably, they premiered Ibsen's ''
Pillars of Society
''The Pillars of Society'' (or "Pillars of the Community"; original Norwegian title: ''Samfundets støtter'') is an 1877 play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
Ibsen had great trouble with the writing of this play. The ending is ...
'' (22-23 June 1896) and ''
Peer Gynt'' (11-12 November 1896);
Alfred Jarry's ''
Ubu Roi
''Ubu Roi'' (; "Ubu the King" or "King Ubu") is a play by French writer Alfred Jarry, then 23 years old. It was first performed in Paris in 1896, by Aurélien Lugné-Poe's Théâtre de l'Œuvre at the Nouveau-Théâtre (today, the Théâtre de ...
'' (9-10 December 1896); Bjørnson's sequel to ''Beyond Human Power'' (25-26 January 1897); Hauptmann's fairy drama ''
The Sunken Bell'' (4-5 March 1897); Bataille's ''Your Blood'' (7-8 May 1897); Ibsen's ''
Love's Comedy'' (22-23 June 1897) and ''
John Gabriel Borkman
''John Gabriel Borkman'' is a 1896 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was his penultimate work.
Plot
The Borkman family fortunes have been brought low by the imprisonment of John Gabriel who used his position as a bank manager to ...
'' (8-9 November 1897);
Nikolai Gogol's ''
The Inspector General'' (7-8 January 1898); and
Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland (; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production a ...
's ''
Aert'' (2-3 May 1898) and ''The Wolves'' (18 May 1898). For their last season, the Théâtre de l'Œuvre gave two undistinguished premieres—Paul Sonniès' ''
Fausta'' (15-16 May 1899) and Lucien Mayrargue's ''The Yoke'' (5-6 June 1899)—preferring to hold the much anticipated revival of ''An Enemy of the People'' at the grander Théâtre de la Renaissance in February. Lugné-Poe's last productions for the company were done at the very theatre where the Théâtre de l'Œuvre had begun in 1893 with ''Pelléas et Mélisande'': the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens. By the close of the nineteenth century, Lugné-Poe's company had successfully established half a dozen Parisian theatres as sites for daring, challenging, and at times outrageous modern drama.
In 1895,
Jakub Grein and the
Independent Theatre Society invited Lugné-Poe and his troupe to present a season of Ibsen's ''
Rosmersholm
''Rosmersholm'' () is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in Danish—the common written language of Denmark and Norway at the time—and originally published in 1886 in Copenhagen by the Danish publisher Gyldendal. ''Rosmersholm'' ...
'', ''
The Master Builder
''The Master Builder'' ( no, Bygmester Solness) is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
It was first published in December 1892 and is regarded as one of Ibsen's more significant and revealing works.
Performance
The play was published ...
'', and
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...
's
symbolist ''
L'Intruse'' and ''
Pelléas and Mélisande
''Pelléas and Mélisande'' (french: Pelléas et Mélisande) is a Symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters. It was first performed in 1893.
The work never achieved great success on the stage, a ...
'' in London.
[Styan, J. ''Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Realism and Naturalism'' pp. 55–57 (Cambridge University Press, 1981) .]
Productions
;
Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens
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* 1893: ''
Pelléas et Mélisande'' (
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...
)
* 1898: ''La Victoire'' (Bouhélier)
* 1898: ''Solness le constructeur'' (
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Prozor)
* 1899: ''Entretien d'un philosophie avec la maréchale de XXX'' (Diderot)
* 1899: ''Le Triomphe de la raison'' (Rolland)
;
Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
The Bouffes du Nord is a theatre at 37 bis, boulevard de la Chapelle, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris located near the Gare du Nord. It has been listed since 1993 as a ''monument historique'' by the French Ministry of Culture.
History
Founde ...
* 1893: ''Rosmersholm'' (
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Prozor)
* 1893: ''Un Ennemi du peuple'' (
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Chennevière and Johansen)
* 1893: ''Ames solitaires'' (
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (; 15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He rece ...
, translated by Cohen)
* 1894: ''L'Araignée de cristal'' (Rachilde)
* 1894: ''Au-dessus des forces humaines'' (Björnstjerne-Björnson, translated by Prozor)
* 1894: ''Une Nuit d'avril à Céos'' (Trarieux)
* 1894: ''L'Image'' (Beaubourg)
* 1894: ''Solness le construsteur'' (
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Prozor)
;
Nouveau-Théâtre
* 1894: ''La Belle au bois dormant'' (Bataille and d'Humières)
* 1894: ''La Vie muette'' (Beaubourg)
* 1894: ''Père'' (
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (, ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty p ...
, translated by Loiseau)
* 1894: ''Un Ennemi du peuple'' (
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Chennevière and Johansen)
* 1895: ''Le Chariot de terre cuite'' (Barrucand)
* 1895: ''La Scène'' (Lebey)
* 1895: ''La Vérité dans levin ou les Désagréments de la galanterie'' (Collé)
* 1895: ''Intérieur(
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...
)
* 1895: ''Brand'' (
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Prozor)
* 1896: ''La Fleur palan enlevée'' (Arène)
* 1896: ''L'Errante'' (Quillard)
* 1896: ''La Dernière croisade'' (Gray)
* 1896: ''Hérakléa'' (Villeroy)
* 1896: ''La Brebis'' (Sée)
* 1896: ''Les Soutiens de la société'' (
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Bertrand and Nevers)
* 1896: ''
Peer Gynt'' (
Henrik Ibsen)
* 1896: ''
Ubu roi ou les Polonais'' (
Alfred Jarry)
* 1896: ''Le Tandem'' (Trézenick and Soulaine)
* 1897: ''La Motte de terre'' (Dumur)
* 1897: ''Au delà des forces humaines'' (Björnstjerne-Björnson, translated by Monnier and Littmanson)
* 1897: ''La Cloche engloutie'' (
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (; 15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He rece ...
, translated by Hérold)
* 1897: ''Ton Sang'' (Bataille)
* 1897: ''Le Fils de l'abbesse'' (Herdey)
* 1897: ''La Comédie de l'amour'' (
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Colleville and Zepelin)
* 1897: ''Jean-Gabriel Borkman'' (
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Prozor)
* 1898: ''Le Revizor'' (
Nikolai Gogol)
* 1898: ''Rosmersholm'' (
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Prozor)
* 1898: ''Le Gage'' (Jourdain)
* 1898: ''L'Échelle'' (Zype)
* 1898: ''
Le Balcon'' (Heiberg, translated by Prozor)
* 1898: ''Aërt'' (Rolland)
* 1898: ''Morituri ou les Loups'' (Rolland)
* 1899: ''Fausta'' (Sonniès)
* 1899: ''Le Joug'' (Mayrargue)
* 1900: ''La Cloître'' (Verhaeren)
* 1901: ''Le Roi candaule'' (
André Gide
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)\
* 1902: ''Monna Vanna'' (
Maurice Maeterlinck
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)
* 1902: ''Manfred'' (Lord Byron, adapted by Forthuny)
* 1903: ''La Roussalka'' (Schuré)
* 1903: ''Le Maître de Palmyre'' (Wilbrandt, translated by Renon, Bénon, and Zifferer)
* 1903: ''L'Oasis'' (Jullien)
* 1904: ''Philippe II'' (Verhaeren)
* 1904: ''Polyphème'' (Samain)
* 1904: ''Oedipe à Colone'' (Sophocles, adapted by Gastambide)
* 1904: ''L'Ouvrier de la dernière heure'' (Guiraud)
* 1904: ''Les Droits du coeur'' (Jullien)
* 1904: ''Le Jaloux'' (Bibesco)
* 1905: ''La Gioconda'' (D'Annunzio, translated by Hérelle)
* 1905: ''La Fille de Jorio'' (D'Annunzio, translated by Hérelle)
* 1905: ''Dionysos'' (Gasquet)
* 1905: ''Dans les bas-fonds'' (Gorky, translated by Halperine-Kaminsky)
* 1906: ''Le Réformateur'' (Rod)
* 1906: ''Le Cloaque'' (Labry)
;Comédie-Parisienne
* 1894: ''Frères'' (Bang, translated by Colleville and Zepelin)
* 1894: ''La Gardienne'' (Régnier)
* 1894: ''Les Créanciers'' (
August Strindberg
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, translated by Loiseau)
* 1895: ''Venise sauvée'' (Otway, translated by Pène)
* 1895: ''L'Anneau de Çakuntala'' (Kalidasa, adapted by Hérold)
* 1896: ''Une Mère'' (Ameen, translated by Prozor)
* 1896: ''Brocéliande'' (Lorrain)
* 1896: ''Les Flaireurs'' (Lerberghe)
* 1896: ''Des mots! des mots!'' (Quinel and Dubreuil)
* 1896: ''Raphaël'' (Coolus)
* 1896: ''
Salomé'' (
Oscar Wilde)
* 1896: ''La Lépreuse'' (
Henry Bataille)
;Théâtre du Ménus-Plaisirs
* 1895: ''L'École de l'idéal'' (Vérola)
* 1895: ''Le Petit Eyolf'' (
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Prozor)
* 1895: ''Le Volant'' (
Paul Claudel
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Early lif ...
)
;Salle de Trianon, Paris
* 1906: ''Madame la marquise'' (Sutro)
* 1906: ''Le Troisième Couvert'' (Savoir)
* 1906: ''Leurs Soucis'' (Bahr)
;Théâtre Marigny
* 1904: ''La Prophétie'' (Toussaint)
* 1906: ''Pan'' (
Charles van Lerberghe
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)
* 1906: ''L'Héritier naturel'' (Keim)
* 1907: ''L'Amie des sages'' (Allou)
* 1907: ''Petit Jean'' (Buysieulx and Max)
* 1908: ''Hypatie'' (Barlatier)
* 1908: ''Acquitté'' (Antona-Traversi, translated by Lécuyer)
* 1908: ''Les Vieux'' (Rameil and Saisset)
* 1908: ''La Madone'' (Spaak)
* 1909: ''Le Roi bombance'' (Marinetti)
* 1909: ''Nonotte et Patouillet'' (du Bois)
;
Théâtre Grévin
* 1907: ''Une Aventure de Frédérick Lemaître'' (Basset)
* 1907: ''Placide'' (Séverin-Malfayde and Dolley)
* 1907: ''Zénaïde ou les caprices du destin'' (Delorme and Gally)
;Théâtre Fémina
* 1907: ''La Tragédie florentine'' (
Oscar Wilde)
* 1907: ''Philista'' (Battanchon)
* 1907: ''Le Droit au bonheur'' (Lemonnier and Soulaine)
* 1907: ''Un Rien'' (Valloton)
* 1907: ''Le Baptême'' (Savoir and Nozière)
* 1907: ''Mendès est dans la salle'' (Marchès and Vautel)
* 1908: ''La Loi'' (Jourda)
* 1908: ''Vae Victis'' (Duterme)
* 1908: ''Les Amours d'Ovide'' (Mouézy-Eon, Auzanet, and Faral)
* 1908: ''Au Temps des fées'' (Blanchard)
* 1908: ''Elektra'' (Hofmannsthal, adapted by Strozzi and Epstein)
* 1908: ''Le Jeu de la morale et du hasard'' (Bernard)
* 1908: ''La Dame qui n'est plus aux camélias'' (Faramond)
* 1909: ''Perce-Neige et les sept gnomes'' (Dortzal, Adapted from ''
Snow White
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'' by
the Brothers Grimm
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)
* 1909: ''La Chaîne'' (Level and Monnier)
* 1910: ''La Sonate à Kreutzer'' (Savoir and Nozière, adapted from Tolstoy)
* 1910: ''Le Mauvais Grain'' (Faramond)
* 1910: ''Le Poupard'' (Bouvelet)
* 1911: ''Malazarte'' (Aranha)
;
Théâtre Antoine
* 1911: ''Sur le seuil'' (Battanchon)
* 1911: ''Un Médecin de campagne'' (Bordeaux and Denarié)
* 1911: ''Les Oiseaux'' (Nozière)
* 1912: ''Anne ma soeur'' (Auzanet)
* 1912: ''La Charité s.v.p.'' (Speth)
* 1912: ''Futile'' (Bernouard)
* 1912: ''Le Visionnaire'' (Renaud)
* 1912: ''Ce Bougre d'original'' (Soulages)
* 1912: ''Le Candidat Machefer'' (Hellem and D'Estoc)
* 1912: ''Ariane blessée'' (Allou)
* 1912: ''Les Derniers Masques'' (Schnitzler, translated by Rémon and Valentin)
* 1914: ''La Danse des fous'' (Birinski, adapted by Rémon)
;
Théâtre du Palais-Royal
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Brief history
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* 1912: ''La Dernière Heure'' (Frappa)
* 1912: ''Grégoire'' (Falk)
* 1912: ''Morituri'' (Prozor)
;
Théâtre Malakoff, Paris
* 1912: ''
L'Annonce faite à Marie'' (
Paul Claudel
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Early lif ...
)
* 1913: ''La Brebis égarée'' (Jammes)
* 1914: ''
L'Otage
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Mises-en-scène
* 1913: Théâtre Scala, London
* 1914: Lugné-Poe, Théâtre de l'Œuvre
* 1928: Firmin Gémie ...
'' (
Paul Claudel
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Early lif ...
)
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Théâtre de l'Œuvre
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, Cité Monthiers
* 1894: ''Annabella'' (translated by
Maurice Maeterlinck
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from ''
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
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'' by
John Ford
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.)
* 1895: ''Les Pieds nickelés'' (Bernard)
* 1897: ''Le Fardeau de la liberté'' (Bernard)
* 1910: ''L'Amour de Kesa'' (Humières)
* 1920: ''La Couronne de carton'' (Sarment)
* 1920: ''Le Cocu magnifique'' (Crommelynck)
* 1921: ''Les Scrupules de Sganarelle'' (Régnier)
* 1921: ''Sophie Arnoux'' (Nigoud)
* 1921: ''Le Pêcheur d'ombres'' (Sarment)
* 1921: ''La Danse de mort'' (
August Strindberg
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, translated by Rémon)
* 1921: ''Comité secret'' (Lourié)
* 1921: ''Madonna Fiamma'' (Ségur)
* 1922: ''L'Age heureux'' (
Jacques Natanson)
* 1922: ''Dardamelle'' (Mazaud)
* 1922: ''Le Dilemme du docteur'' (
George Bernard Shaw
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)
* 1922: ''La Dette de Schmil'' (Orna)
* 1922: ''Le Visage sans voile'' (Allou)
* 1922: ''Le Retour d'Ivering'' (Holt)
* 1922: ''Le Lasso'' (Batty-Weber)
* 1922: ''L'Enfant truqué'' (Natanson)
* 1923: ''La Dame allègre'' (Puig and Ferreter, translated by Pierat)
* 1923: ''La Messe est dite'' (Achard)
* 1923: ''Le Cadi et le cocu'' (Mille and Loria)
* 1923: ''Est-ce possible?'' (Birabeau)
* 1923: ''Passions de fantoches'' (San Secondo, translated by Mortier)
* 1923: ''On finit souvent par où on devrait commencer'' (Turpin)
* 1923: ''La Maison avant tout'' (Hamp)
* 1923: ''Berniquel'' (
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...
)
* 1923: ''L'Autre Messie'' (Soumagne)
* 1924: ''Le Feu à l'Opéra'' (Kaiser, translated by Goll)
* 1924: ''Irène exigeante'' (Beaunier)
* 1924: ''Le Mort à cheval'' (Ghéon)
* 1924: ''La Farce des encore'' (Thuysbaert and Ghéon)
* 1924: ''L'Amour est un Étrange maître'' (Worms-Barretta)
* 1924: ''Philippe le zélé'' (Trintzius and Valentin)
* 1924: ''L'Égoïste'' (Orna)
* 1924: ''
La Profession de Madame Warren'' (
George Bernard Shaw
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* 1924: ''La Maison ouverte'' (Passeur)
* 1925: ''Le Génie camouglé'' (Fabri)
* 1925: ''La Femme de feu'' (Schoenherr, translated by Lindauer)
* 1925: ''La Traversée de Paris à la nage'' (Passeur)
* 1925: ''Une Demande en mariage'' (
Anton Chekhov)
* 1925: ''Je Rectifie les visages'' (Trintzius and Valentin)
* 1925: ''La Fleur sous les yeux'' (Martini, translated by Ponzone)
* 1925: ''Tour à terre'' (Salacrou)
* 1926: ''Les Danseurs de gigue'' (Soumagne)
* 1926: ''Ariel'' (Marx)
* 1926: ''Poisson d'avril ou les griffes du destin'' (adapted from Colpartage, translated by Lindauer)
* 1926: ''La Jeune Fille de la popote'' (Passeur)
* 1926: ''L'Ancre noire'' (Brasseur)
* 1926: ''Ville moderne'' (Modave)
* 1927: ''L'Avons-nous tuée?'' (Datz)
* 1927: ''Le Déraillement du T.P. 33'' (Hamp)
* 1927: ''Le Bourgeois romanesque'' (Blanchon)
* 1927: ''Un Homme en or'' (Ferdinand)
* 1927: ''Les Deux Amis'' (Savoir)
* 1927: ''Le Conditionnel passé'' (Bruyez)
* 1927: ''Un Homme seul'' (Sauvage)
* 1927: ''Une Bourgeoise'' (Francen)
* 1927: ''Télescopage'' (Demont)
* 1927: ''L'Ile lointaine'' (Ginisty)
* 1928: ''Madame Marie'' (Soumagne)
* 1928: ''La Halte sur la grand route'' (Jabès)
* 1928: ''La Foire aux sentiments'' (Ferdinand)
* 1928: ''Hommes du monde'' (Brasseur)
* 1928: ''Tu Pourrais ne pas m'aimer'' (Brasseur)
* 1928: ''Les Trois Langages'' (Charmel)
* 1928: ''Celui qui voulait jouer avec la vie'' (François)
* 1928: ''Le Cercle'' (Maugham, adapted by Carbuccia)
* 1929: ''Jules, Juliette et Julien'' (Bernard)
;Other Paris Theatres
* 1895: ''Carmosine'' (Musset), Ministère du Commerce
* 1896: ''Le Grand Galeoto'' (Echegaray), home of Ruth Rattazzi
* 1898: ''Mesure pour mesure'' (
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), Cirque d'été
* 1899: ''Noblesse de la terre'' (Faramond), Théâtre de la Renaissance
* 1899: ''Un Ennemi du peuple'' (
Henrik Ibsen, translated by Chennevière and Johansen), Théâtre de la Renaissance
* 1900: ''Monsieur Bonnet'' (Faramond), Théâtre du Gymnase
* 1911: ''Le Philanthrope ou la Maison des amours'' (Bouvelet), Théâtre Réjane
* 1913: ''Le Baladin du monde occidental'' (Synge, translated by Bourgeois), Salle Berlioz
References
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1869 births
1940 deaths
Male actors from Paris
French theatre directors
Actor-managers
French male stage actors
French male film actors
20th-century French male actors
19th-century theatre managers
20th-century theatre managers
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