Théâtre de l'Athénée
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| Coordinates | 48°52′19″N 2°19′44″E / 48.87191°N 2.329°E |
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| Opened | 31 December 1894 |
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The Théâtre de l'Athénée is a theatre at 7 rue Boudreau, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Renovated in 1996 and classified a historical monument, the Athénée inherits an artistic tradition marked by the figure of Louis Jouvet who directed the theatre from 1934 to 1951. During the period when he was director, it became known as the Athenée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet.
History
The current Théâtre de l'Athénée was constructed from a foyer (part of the former Éden-Théâtre), which was converted into an intimate theatre in 1893 by the architect Stanislas Loison with further modifications carried out by the architect Paul Fouquiau in 1894. It opened on 31 December 1894 under the name Théâtre de la Comédie-Parisienne.[1]
Oscar Wilde's play
Later that year the construction work on the site of the former Éden theatre was finally completed by Fouquiau, and the theatre was reconstituted as the Athénée-Comique, "from the name of a notoriously frivolous, perhaps immoral, establishment nearby that had to close ten years earlier" [see Théâtre de l'Athénée (rue Scribe)].[7] The theatre was renamed Athénée in 1899. For the first 40 years it was the home of vaudevilles, comedies, and melodramas.[7]
In 1934
Pierre Renoir, who had been an actor in Jouvet's troupe, was artistic director, briefly, from 1951 until his death the following year.
In the 2000s the Théâtre Athénée presented revivals of operetta and musical comedy, among which the Brigands company produced Le docteur Ox (2003), Ta Bouche (2004), Toi c'est moi (2005) and Arsène Lupin Banquier (2007).[12]
References
- ^ a b c Lecomte 1905, p. 21.
- ^ Lecomte 1905, p. 15.
- ^ Lecomte 1905, p. 14.
- ^ Liebowitz Knapp 1957, p. 283.
- ^ Bristow 2009, pp. 98, 106, 193.
- ^ Tydeman & Price 1996, p. 28.
- ^ a b c Hartnoll 1983, "Athénée, Théâtre d l'", p. 40.
- ^ Garreau 1984b, p. 324,
- ^ Liebowitz Knapp 1957, p. 285.
- ^ Garreau 1984a, p. 253.
- ^ Liebowitz Knapp 1957, p. 283–284.
- ^ L'encyclopédie multimedia de la comédie musicale théâtrale en France (1918–1940), accessed 9 August 2012
Sources
- Bristow, Joseph (2009). Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-1837-6.
- Garreau, Joseph E. (1984a). "Genet, Jean" in Hochman 1984, vol. 2, pp. 250–254.
- Garreau, Joseph E. (1984b). "Giraudoux, Jean" in Hochman 1984, vol. 2, pp. 316–324.
- Hartnoll, Phyllis, editor (1983). The Oxford Companion to the Theatre (fourth edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-211546-1.
- Hochman, Stanley, editor (1984). McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama (second edition, 5 volumes). New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-079169-5.
- Lecomte, Louis-Henry (1905). Histoire des théâtres 1402–1904. Notice préliminaire. Paris: Daragon. View at Google Books.
- Liebowitz Knapp, Bettina (1957). Louis Jouvet: Man of the Theatre. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9781199441348.
- ISBN 978-1-56159-228-9.
- Tydeman, William; Price, Steven (1996). Wilde: Salome Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-56545-5.
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