Théâtre de l'Œuvre
Salle Berlioz, 3, Cité Monthiers | |
Théâtre de l'Œuvre c. 2010 | |
| Address | 55 rue de Clichy, 9° arrondissement Paris France |
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| Coordinates | 48°52′51″N 2°19′43″E / 48.880961°N 2.3285°E |
| Operator | Gérard Maro |
| Type | theatre |
| Capacity | 326 |
| Opened | 1893 |
The Théâtre de l'Œuvre (French pronunciation: [teɑtʁ də lœvʁ]) is a Paris theatre on the Right Bank, located at 3, Cité Monthiers, entrance 55, rue de Clichy, in the 9° arrondissement. It is commonly conflated and confused with the late-nineteenth-century theater company named Théâtre de l'Œuvre (or simply, L'Œuvre), founded by actor-director-producer Aurélien Lugné-Poe, who would not take control of this performance space until 1919. His company is best known for its earlier phase of existence, before it acquired this theatre venue. From 1893 to 1899, in various Parisian theatres, Lugné-Poe premiered modernist plays by foreign dramatists (Ibsen, Strindberg, Hauptmann, Bjørnson, Wilde), as well as new work by French Symbolists, most notoriously Alfred Jarry’s nihilistic farce Ubu Roi, which opened in 1896 at Nouveau-Théâtre (today, Théâtre de Paris, 15, rue Blanche).
It is best to discuss the surviving theater building and Lugné-Poe's several-phase theater production company separately, though they share much of their history.