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Théâtre Libre

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 615 words | Copyright

Théâtre Libre, Paris, theatre club founded in 1887 by André Antoine for the production of plays by new naturalistic French and foreign playwrights. Before it finally closed in 1896, mainly because of financial difficulties, it had staged 184 plays, among them those of such outstanding dramatists as Becque, Brieux, Hauptmann, Ibsen, and Strindberg. Its innovations in playwriting, direction, and acting had a great influence on the contemporary French theatre, and its settings, scrupulously exact reproductions of real life, helped to liberate the stage from the artificiality of an earlier epoch.

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