Aurélien-Marie Lugné (27 December 1869 19 June 1940), known by his stage and
pen name
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Lugné-Poe, was a French actor,
theatre director
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, and scenic designer. He founded the landmark Paris theatre company, the
Théâtre de l'Œuvre,
which produced experimental work by French
Symbolist writers and painters at the end of the nineteenth century.
Like his contemporary, theatre pioneer
André Antoine, he gave the French premieres of works by the leading Scandinavian playwrights
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
,
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 60 pla ...
, 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 distinguished ...
.
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and friend Georges Bourdon created an amateur theatre group called le Cercle des Escholiers, which sought to perform "unpublished or, at the very least, little-known works."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, he changed his name from Lugné to "Lugné-Poe" in homage to
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely re ...
. While the Conservatory rejected his audition in fall 1887, they accepted him in fall 1888; days later he joined
André Antoine's
Théâtre Libre, a subscriber-based
Naturalist
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independent
theatre
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. After appearing in the first play of that season under his own name, Lugné-Poe adopted the
stage name
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s "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 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's
Théâtre d'Art, first appearing in
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the 1911 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
''The Lady from the Sea'' () is a Play (theatre), play written in 1888 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen inspired by the ballad ''Agnete og Havmanden''. The drama introduces the character of Hilde Wangel who is again portrayed in Ibsen's late ...
'' (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 explores the complexities of truth and illusion through the story of a family torn apart by secrets and the intrusion of a ...
'' in 1891, and
Albert Carré's production of ''
Hedda Gabler'' in December 1891. When Lugné-Poe reconstituted the Théâtre d'Art as the
Théâtre de l'Œuvre 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 in May 1893, but the six engagements in his next season occurred at the distant
Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, where he premiered Ibsen's ''
Rosmersholm'', ''
An Enemy of the People'', and ''
The Master Builder'', Gerhart Hauptmann's ''Lonely Lives'', and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's ''Beyond Human Power'', among others. For the May 1894 production of
Henri Bataille and
Robert d'Humières' ''Sleeping Beauty'', he secured
Nouveau-Théâtre's space for the first time. Though he concluded the season with
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 60 pla ...
'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
John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), better known as John Ford, was an American film director and producer. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood, and w ...
'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'') 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's ''
Venice Preserved'',
Kālidāsa
Kālidāsa (, "Servant of Kali (god), Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright. His plays and poetry are primarily based on Hindu Puranas and philosophy. ...
's ''
The Ring of Shakuntalā'', and
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwright ...
's ''
Salome
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''.
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'' (22-23 June 1896) and ''
Peer Gynt
''Peer Gynt'' (, ) is a five-Act (drama), act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It is one of Ibsen's best known and most widely performed plays.
''Peer Gynt'' chronicles the journey of its title character fr ...
'' (11-12 November 1896);
Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry (; ; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French Artistic symbol, symbolist writer who is best known for his play ''Ubu Roi'' (1896)'','' often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealism, Surrealist, and Futurism, Futurist ...
's ''
Ubu Roi'' (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'' (8-9 November 1897);
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...
'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 Mysticism, mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary pro ...
'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
Flavia Maxima Fausta ''Augusta'' (died 326 AD) was a Roman empress. She was the daughter of Maximian and wife of Constantine the Great, who had her executed and excluded from all official accounts for unknown reasons. Historians Zosimus and ...
'' (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'', ''
The Master Builder'', and
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in ...
's
symbolist ''
L'Intruse'' and ''
Pelléas and Mélisande'' 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
* 1893: ''
Pelléas et Mélisande'' (
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in ...
)
* 1898: ''La Victoire'' (Bouhélier)
* 1898: ''Solness le constructeur'' (
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
, 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
* 1893: ''Rosmersholm'' (
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
, translated by Prozor)
* 1893: ''Un Ennemi du peuple'' (
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
, translated by Chennevière and Johansen)
* 1893: ''Ames solitaires'' (
Gerhart Hauptmann, 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
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
, 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 60 pla ...
, translated by Loiseau)
* 1894: ''Un Ennemi du peuple'' (
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
, 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/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in ...
)
* 1895: ''Brand'' (
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
, 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
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
, translated by Bertrand and Nevers)
* 1896: ''
Peer Gynt
''Peer Gynt'' (, ) is a five-Act (drama), act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It is one of Ibsen's best known and most widely performed plays.
''Peer Gynt'' chronicles the journey of its title character fr ...
'' (
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
)
* 1896: ''
Ubu roi ou les Polonais'' (
Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry (; ; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French Artistic symbol, symbolist writer who is best known for his play ''Ubu Roi'' (1896)'','' often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealism, Surrealist, and Futurism, Futurist ...
)
* 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, translated by Hérold)
* 1897: ''Ton Sang'' (Bataille)
* 1897: ''Le Fils de l'abbesse'' (Herdey)
* 1897: ''La Comédie de l'amour'' (
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
, translated by Colleville and Zepelin)
* 1897: ''Jean-Gabriel Borkman'' (
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
, translated by Prozor)
* 1898: ''Le Revizor'' (
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...
)
* 1898: ''Rosmersholm'' (
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
, 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)\
* 1902: ''Monna Vanna'' (
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in ...
)
* 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
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 60 pla ...
, 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
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwright ...
)
* 1896: ''La Lépreuse'' (
Henry Bataille)
;Théâtre du Ménus-Plaisirs
* 1895: ''L'École de l'idéal'' (Vérola)
* 1895: ''Le Petit Eyolf'' (
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
, translated by Prozor)
* 1895: ''Le Volant'' (
Paul Claudel)
;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)
* 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
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwright ...
)
* 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
"Snow White" is a German fairy tale, first written down in the early 19th century. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'', numbered as Tale 53. The original title was ''Sneewittch ...
'' by
the Brothers Grimm)
* 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
* 1912: ''La Dernière Heure'' (Frappa)
* 1912: ''Grégoire'' (Falk)
* 1912: ''Morituri'' (Prozor)
;
Théâtre Malakoff, Paris
* 1912: ''
L'Annonce faite à Marie'' (
Paul Claudel)
* 1913: ''La Brebis égarée'' (Jammes)
* 1914: ''
L'Otage'' (
Paul Claudel)
;
Théâtre de l'Œuvre, Cité Monthiers
* 1894: ''Annabella'' (translated by
Maurice Maeterlinck
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from ''
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'' by
John Ford
John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), better known as John Ford, was an American film director and producer. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood, and w ...
.)
* 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
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 60 pla ...
, 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
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 188 ...
)
* 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/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the 1911 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
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his b ...
)
* 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'' (
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
), Cirque d'été
* 1899: ''Noblesse de la terre'' (Faramond), Théâtre de la Renaissance
* 1899: ''Un Ennemi du peuple'' (
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...
, 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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