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The New French Theatre
Spiers, A. G. H. | November 22, 1917 issue

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The article presents information on the French theatre. "Such a theatre, then, will be modern and strenuous; give me real comedians and on a platform of rough- hewn boards, I will promise to produce real comedy." So speaks Jacques Copeau and people are inclined to take him at his word. For this critic, author, actor, manager is a man of achievement. In an out-of-the-way street, in an unfashionable quarter of Paris, with only the aid of obscure actors, it took him just eight months to make his theatre the rendezvous of all that was best in the theatre-going public. And when his company went on tour in England it aroused the same enthusiastic admiration.

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THEATER; PERFORMING arts; COPEAU, Jacques; ACTORS; CRITICS; AUTHORS
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