Theatre Paris-Villette

Created in 1985, the Theater Paris villette is in line with the project of rearrangement of the site of the Villette that occupied, to 1974, the parisian slaughterhouses. Constructed in 1868, the building of trains neoclassical that shelters today the theater welcomed formerly the stock market to leathers. In 1972, to the same place and coexisting with the slaughterhouses always in activity, opened the Present theater. The Theater Paris villette there is been founded thirteen years later, on the impulse of the Direction of the Cultural Matters of the Paris city hall and mayor of the 19th district desiring some to do a creation center contemporary. Completely subsidized by the Paris city hall, this municipal theater is a window of the French theatrical creation of today. On the three rooms that the compose, two of them - the Small Room (70 places) and the Blue Room (30 places) - are devoted to the young talents. For example, this is here that Yasmina Reza creates in 1986 his first piece 'Conversations after an enterrement' that will bring him the success that one knows. The theater wants itself equally a place of exchanges between artists and inhabitants of the neighborhood. Demonstrations in all kind, pretexts to the meet, there are organized. Proximity, variety and novelty are the leitmotivs of this theater recognized by the professionals of the spectacle and the general public.

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Contact Information

Theatre Paris-Villette
211, avenue Jean Jaurès,
75019 Paris

Tel. +33142020268

http://www.theatre-paris-villette.com