BIRTH OF THE LIITLE THE ATR E
The first Little Theatre wat founded in Paris in the ’eighties by Andre Antoine, then an “em ployee” of the Gaslight Company now the foremost dramatic critic of France.
It was called the Theatre Libre, and revolutionised the drama of Paris and the Continent. A phalanx of new authors arose under its banner. The second Little Theatre was established in Berlin, and its name was “Schall und Rauch” —“Sound and Smoke” — it followed in the footsteps of the Theatre Libre, and became the pioneer of Maxim Gorki, Maeterlinck, Wedekind and many others. The third Little Theatre belongs to Manchester, and its founder was that selfless, generous, artistic woman, Miss Horniman. It made history by a band of dramatists known as the Manchester School. It did more for dramatic progress in England than all the London theatres together. Thence forward, the movement developed rapidly abroad; very sloivly, but surely in England. And the cry is “still they come.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 218, 3 December 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)
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164BIRTH OF THE LIITLE THE ATR E Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 218, 3 December 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)
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