Stage: Solness le Constructeur (Paris)

Théâtre Hébertot; Paris; September 3 – November 27, 2010

The Théâtre Hébertot, a Louis-Philippe jewel built in 1836 in the village of Batignolles, now part of Paris’ 17th arrondissement, has a long and partly illustrious history. Until the end of the nineteenth century, the gilded, galleried house known as “les Batnigolles” alternated melodramas and the kind of comedies that, in the words of its current Artistic Director Pierre Franck “made nobody laugh except imbeciles” (L’avant-scène théâter [August, 2010] 95). The philanthropist Jacques Rouché changed all this when he transformed the Hébertot into a theatre for serious French drama.

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