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Théâtre Libre , French theatrical company founded in Paris in 1887 by André Antoine . Inspired by the work of the Meiningen Players , Antoine's theater became a showcase for naturalist drama. Plays of Zola, Becque, Brieux, and of contemporary German, Scandinavian, and Russian masters were produced. The Théâtre Libre became a model for experimental theaters throughout Europe and the United States.

Bibliography: See S. M. Waxman, Antoine and the Théâtre-Libre (1926).

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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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