Aurélien Lugné-Poe
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Aurélien-François Lugné-Poë (27 December 186919 June 1940) born Aurélien-François-Marie Lugné was a French actor, theatre director
, and scenic designer best known for his work at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre
, one of the first theatrical venues in France to provide a home for the artists of the Symbolist Movement
at the end of the nineteenth century. Most notably, Lugné-Poë introduced French audiences to the Scandinavian playwrights August Strindberg
and Henrik Ibsen
.
a private naturalist
theatre
run by André Antoine
.
He also organized a group of painters known as The Nabis
. He spread word of the group by writing articles about their work for them.
Lugné-Poë added the name "Poë" to his own out of admiration for the American poet
. He also claimed to be a distant relative.
He later created a group called "La Maison de l'Œuvre" or " Le Théâtre de l'Œuvre
" (1893-1929). This was a private group of spectators and an experimental theatre that went against the naturalist movement and that contributed to the symbolist
movement in theatre and to the discovery of new playwrights.
In 1895, Jakub Grein
and the Independent Theatre Society
invited Lugné-Poë and his troup to present a season of Ibsen's Rosmersholm
, The Master Builder
and Maurice Maeterlinck
's symbolist
L'Intruse
and Pelléas and Mélisande
in London.
Théâtre du Palais-Royal
Théâtre de l'Œuvre
Actor-manager
An actor-manager is a leading actor who sets up their own permanent theatrical company and manages the company's business and financial arrangements, sometimes taking over the management of a theatre, to perform plays of their own choice and in which they will usually star...
, and scenic designer best known for his work at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre
Théâtre de l'Œuvre
The Théâtre de l'Œuvre is a Paris theatre, located atop cité Monthiers, at 55 rue de Clichy in the 9° arrondissement in Paris, France. It is best known as the theatre where Alfred Jarry’s nihilistic farce Ubu Roi premiered in 1896....
, one of the first theatrical venues in France to provide a home for the artists of the Symbolist Movement
Symbolism (arts)
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire...
at the end of the nineteenth century. Most notably, Lugné-Poë introduced French audiences to the Scandinavian playwrights August Strindberg
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...
and Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
.
Life and Career
At age 19 he entered the Paris Conservatoire and became part of the Théâtre LibreThéâtre Libre
The Théâtre Libre was a theatre company that operated from 1887 to 1896 in the Montmartre district of Paris, France.-History:Théâtre Libre was founded on 30 March 1887 by André Antoine, who wanted to create a dramatization of an Émile Zola novel, Thérèse Raquin after the theater group for which he...
a private naturalist
Naturalism (theatre)
Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to theatre that attempts to create a perfect illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies: detailed, three-dimensional settings Naturalism is a...
theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
run by André Antoine
André Antoine (actor)
André Antoine was a French actor, theatre manager, film director, author, and critic who is considered the father of modern mise en scène in France.-Biography:...
.
He also organized a group of painters known as The Nabis
Les Nabis
Les Nabis were a group of Post-Impressionist avant-garde artists who set the pace for fine arts and graphic arts in France in the 1890s. Initially a group of friends interested in contemporary art and literature, most of them studied at the private art school of Rodolphe Julian in Paris in the...
. He spread word of the group by writing articles about their work for them.
Lugné-Poë added the name "Poë" to his own out of admiration for the American poet
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
. He also claimed to be a distant relative.
He later created a group called "La Maison de l'Œuvre" or " Le Théâtre de l'Œuvre
Théâtre de l'Œuvre
The Théâtre de l'Œuvre is a Paris theatre, located atop cité Monthiers, at 55 rue de Clichy in the 9° arrondissement in Paris, France. It is best known as the theatre where Alfred Jarry’s nihilistic farce Ubu Roi premiered in 1896....
" (1893-1929). This was a private group of spectators and an experimental theatre that went against the naturalist movement and that contributed to the symbolist
Symbolism (arts)
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire...
movement in theatre and to the discovery of new playwrights.
In 1895, Jakub Grein
J. T. Grein
Jacob Thomas Grein was a Dutch-born theatre impresario and drama critic who helped establish the modern theatre in London, England.-Biography:...
and the Independent Theatre Society
Independent Theatre Society
The Independent Theatre Society was a by-subscription-only organisation in London from 1891 to 1897, founded by Dutch drama critic Jacob Grein to give "special performances of plays which have a literary and artistic rather than a commercial value." The society was inspired by its continental...
invited Lugné-Poë and his troup to present a season of Ibsen's Rosmersholm
Rosmersholm
Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen's masterwork, only equalled by The Wild Duck of 1884...
, The Master Builder
The Master Builder
The Master Builder is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was first published in December 1892 and is regarded as one of Ibsen's most significant and revealing works.-Performance:...
and Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also called Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life...
's symbolist
Symbolism (arts)
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire...
L'Intruse
L'Intruse
Intruder is a play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. It is the second play Maeterlinck wrote.Intruder concerns man's conflict with preternatural forces, against which he is powerless...
and Pelléas and Mélisande
Pelléas and Mélisande
Pelléas and Mélisande is a Symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters. It was first performed in 1893....
in London.
Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens
- 1893: Pelléas et Mélisande (Maurice MaeterlinckMaurice MaeterlinckMaurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also called Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life...
) - 1898: La Victoire (Bouhélier)
- 1898: Solness le constructeur (Henrik IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, 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 IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, translated by Prozor) - 1893: Un Ennemi du peuple (Henrik IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, translated by Chennevière and Johansen) - 1893: Ames solitaires (Gerhart HauptmannGerhart HauptmannGerhart Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.-Life and work:...
, 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 IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, translated by Prozor)
Nouveau-Théâtre
- 1894: La Belle au bois dormant (Bataille and d'Humières)
- 1894: La Vie muette (Beaubourg)
- 1894: Père (August StrindbergAugust StrindbergJohan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...
, translated by Loiseau) - 1894: Un Ennemi du peuple (Henrik IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, 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 MaeterlinckMaurice MaeterlinckMaurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also called Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life...
) - 1895: Brand (Henrik IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, 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 IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, translated by Bertrand and Nevers) - 1896: Peer GyntPeer GyntPeer Gynt is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, loosely based on the fairy tale Per Gynt. It is the most widely performed Norwegian play. According to Klaus Van Den Berg, the "cinematic script blends poetry with social satire and realistic scenes with surreal ones"...
(Henrik IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
) - 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 HauptmannGerhart HauptmannGerhart Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.-Life and work:...
, translated by Hérold) - 1897: Ton Sang (Bataille)
- 1897: Le Fils de l'abbesse (Herdey)
- 1897: La Comédie de l'amour (Henrik IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, translated by Colleville and Zepelin) - 1897: Jean-Gabriel Borkman (Henrik IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, translated by Prozor) - 1898: Le Revizor (Nikolai GogolNikolai GogolNikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
) - 1898: Rosmersholm (Henrik IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, translated by Prozor) - 1898: Le Gage (Jourdain)
- 1898: L'Échelle (Zype)
- 1898: Le BalconLe BalconLe Balcon is a chamber orchestra dedicated to the interpretation of music through the amplification of acoustic instruments....
(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 GideAndré GideAndré Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide...
)\
- 1902: Monna Vanna (Maurice MaeterlinckMaurice MaeterlinckMaurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also called Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life...
) - 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 StrindbergAugust StrindbergJohan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...
, 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: SaloméSalome (play)Salome is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde.The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published...
(Oscar WildeOscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
) - 1896: La Lépreuse (Henry BatailleHenry BatailleFélix-Henri Bataille was a French dramatist and poet. His works were extremely popular between 1900 and the start of World War I....
)
Théâtre du Ménus-Plaisirs
- 1895: L'École de l'idéal (Vérola)
- 1895: Le Petit Eyolf (Henrik IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, translated by Prozor) - 1895: Le Volant (Paul ClaudelPaul ClaudelPaul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
)
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 (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 WildeOscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
) - 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 WhiteSnow White"Snow White" is a fairy tale known from many countries in Europe, the best known version being the German one collected by the Brothers Grimm...
by the Brothers GrimmBrothers GrimmThe Brothers Grimm , Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular...
)
- 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-RoyalThéâtre du Palais-RoyalThe Théâtre du Palais-Royal is a 750 seat theatre at 38, rue Montpensier in Paris. In 1637 Cardinal Richelieu began work on a theatre on the east wing of the Palais-Royal building, to break the theatre monopoly of the Hôtel de Bourgogne, and it was opened in 1641...
- 1912: La Dernière Heure (Frappa)
- 1912: Grégoire (Falk)
- 1912: Morituri (Prozor)
Salle Malakoff, Paris
- 1912: L'Annonce faite á Marie (Paul ClaudelPaul ClaudelPaul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
) - 1913: La Brebis égarée (Jammes)
- 1914: L'Otage (Paul ClaudelPaul ClaudelPaul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.-Life:...
)
Théâtre de l'ŒuvreThéâtre de l'ŒuvreThe Théâtre de l'Œuvre is a Paris theatre, located atop cité Monthiers, at 55 rue de Clichy in the 9° arrondissement in Paris, France. It is best known as the theatre where Alfred Jarry’s nihilistic farce Ubu Roi premiered in 1896....
, Cité Monthiers
- 1894: Annabella (translated by Maurice MaeterlinckMaurice MaeterlinckMaurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also called Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life...
from 'Tis Pity She's a Whore'Tis Pity She's a Whore'Tis Pity She's a Whore is a tragedy written by John Ford. It was likely first performed between 1629 and 1633, by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre. The play was first published in 1633, in a quarto printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller Richard Collins...
by John FordJohn Ford (dramatist)John Ford was an English Jacobean and Caroline playwright and poet born in Ilsington in Devon in 1586.-Life and work:...
.) - 1895: Les Pieds nickelés (Bernard)
- 1896: Ubu roi ou les PolonaisUbu RoiUbu Roi is a play by Alfred Jarry, premiered in 1896. It is a precursor of the Theatre of the Absurd and Surrealism. It is the first of three stylised burlesques in which Jarry satirises power, greed, and their evil practices — in particular the propensity of the complacent bourgeois to abuse the...
(Alfred JarryAlfred JarryAlfred Jarry was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side....
) - 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 StrindbergAugust StrindbergJohan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...
, translated by Rémon) - 1921: Comité secret (Lourié)
- 1921: Madonna Fiamma (Ségur)
- 1922: L'Age heureux (Jacques NatansonJacques NatansonFrench writer Jacques Natanson first became involved in the movies in 1929 when one of his plays was adapted for the screen. He enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Max Ophüls, on such films as "La Ronde" , "Le Plaisir" and "Lola Montes" ....
) - 1922: Dardamelle (Mazaud)
- 1922: Le Dilemme du docteur (George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
) - 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 MaeterlinckMaurice MaeterlinckMaurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also called Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life...
) - 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 WarrenMrs. Warren's ProfessionMrs Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893. The story centers on the relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren, a brothel owner, described by the author as "on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman" and her daughter, Vivie...
(George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
) - 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 ChekhovAnton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
) - 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 ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
), Cirque d'été - 1899: Noblesse de la terre (Faramond), Théâtre de la Renaissance
- 1899: Un Ennemi du peuple (Henrik IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, 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