“Somewhere Else First”

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 […]