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Théâtre Libre
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Théâtre Libre (tāät`rə lēb`rə), French theatrical company founded in Paris in 1887 by André Antoine Antoine, André (äNdrā` äNtwän`), 1858–1943, French theatrical director, manager, and critic.
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. Inspired by the work of the Meiningen Players Meiningen Players, German theatrical company that toured Europe from 1874 to 1890. The group, inspiring theatrical reforms wherever it performed, was a major influence in the movement toward modern theater.
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, 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.

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



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His strategy lay in reawakening his audience's memory of the excitement stirred by the dynamic labor leader Jim Larkin, here presented as the narrative's formal antagonist, and by utilizing a form of playwriting developed in Paris at Antoine's Theatre Libre in the 1890s called comedie fosse.
Davis reminds us that the success of Theatre Libre depended on Antoine's gas company salary, and also suggests that profit is backstage where theatre's social significance to the public is concerned.
53) In 1887 the Theatre Libre was noted for this method of lighting scenes.
 
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