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Lugné-Poe

French actor and director (1869-1940) · France · On the map · Actors · Died at 70

Aurélien-Marie Lugné, known by his stage and pen name Lugné-Poe, was a French actor, theatre director, and scenic designer. He founded the landmark Paris theatre company, the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, which produced experimental work by French Symbolist writers and painters at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Like his contemporary, theatre pioneer André Antoine, he gave the French premieres of works by the leading Scandinavian playwrights Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.

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France
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1869 to 1940 · aged 70

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