Théâtre municipal de Poitiers

About

The Old Municipal Theatre of Poitiers is a Post Art Deco style building located on the Place du Maréchal-Leclerc. Built in 1954 by architect Édouard Lardillier, a great name for the theatre architecture, it preserves in its hall a spectacular glass wall glazed and engraved in the workshops of Robert Pansart. Replaced as a theatre labeled National Scene by the Theatre Auditorium de Poitiers (TAP) since 2008, it served as a cinema of Art and Essai until December 2012. It has been closed since that date.

Poitevin theatres: The town of Poitiers did not have a monumental show hall until the beginning of the 19th century.

The Old Comedy: An impractical room was in the 18th century on the street named today "street of the Ancienne-Comédie". Built in an old palm game located in the lower part of the street, it had a square shape and had no particular layout to believe the ancient descriptions. "In a word, we cannot imagine together more miserable," says M. B. de la Liborlière in his memoirs published in 1846.