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Article: "Somewhere Else First"
- Article from:
- Anuario Filosófico
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE, there sprang up a collection of "free" theatres, not free of charge but liberated from excessive commercial pressures and, equally important, from censorship. Starting in 1887 with the Théâtre Libre in Paris, the movement quickly spread to Berlin (the Freie Bühne, 1888), and London (the Independent Theatre, 1892), and then eventually to Moscow (the Moscow Art Theatre, 1898), Dublin (the Abbey Players, 1904), Stockholm (the Intimate Theatre, 1907), and New York (the Washington Square Players and the Provincetown Players, both in 1915). Most of these companies did not last long (although the Moscow Art Theatre and the Abbey Players continue to this day), ...