Theater in Paris

Abstract

THE NUMBER OF PLAYS PRESENTED, and the uncertainty and hesitation of last season's theater in Paris, make it difficult to give a clear survey of the whole. Many plays were presented, the productions were often strikingly rich and original, and yet in few instances was anything really decisive created. It seems that the gap which has been evident in recent years between a rich and varied development of scenic writing and a petrifaction of properly dramatic writing, still exists, and that the expectancy of a new and growing public, recruited in Paris by such producers as Jean Vilar, or in the provinces by Roger Planchon, Jean Daste, and many others, has not been met.