Café-théâtre
French small-scale theatre venues serving drinks and launching comedy stars.
Café-théâtre is the French term for small theatre venues where patrons can order drinks during performances. Emerging in France from the late 1960s, these venues hosted unconventional or low-budget spectacles, including theatre, stand-up comedy, singing tours, and improvisational theatre. Many performers who began in café-théâtre became film stars in the 1970s, and by the 1980s most new French comedy stars had started their careers there.
Quick Facts
- First parisian café-théâtre
- Royal Café, created by Bernard Da Costa in 1966
- Notable early venue
- Café de la Gare, founded in 1968 by Romain Bouteille and Sotha
- Another venue
- La Veuve Pichard (later Le Point Virgule), founded in 1975 by Gérard Lanvin, Martin Lamotte, and Anémone
- British counterpart
- Cafe Theatre, a touring dinner theatre company created by Derek Woodward in the mid-1980s
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