Description of the attraction
The Teatro de Posch ("Pocket") is the smallest theater in Paris. It is located near the Boulevard Montparnasse, in the narrow cul-de-sac of Robiquet. The fact that the theater is located here can only be guessed by the inscription on the blue visor above the entrance - earlier there was an ordinary cafe here. The tiny hall for sixty seats appeared here in 1942, today it is quite successful, and its history is impressive.
1942 - the height of the Nazi occupation, but the theatrical life in Paris, although weakened, is not interrupted. The Théâtre de Ville is staging Sartre's Fly, a not too veiled pamphlet against the fascist dictatorship. The National Opera presents a one-act ballet based on La Fontaine's fables, featuring French music - a bold step for those days. Actors in Parisian theaters took part in the Resistance movement. It was at this time that the Teatro de Posch was born.
The creation of such a chamber scene was unusual: until now, Paris has been a city of huge halls. But the theater made a serious claim by taking on Strindberg's plays. And then an actor came here who forever inscribed the Théâtre de Posch in the history of culture - Marcel Marceau.
He was born in 1923, at the age of sixteen he joined the Resistance movement - after his father was burned in a concentration camp crematorium. He was a liaison, hiding from the Gestapo. After the war, he studied, mastered pantomime. I came up with a mask for myself: a whitewashed face, a bright scarlet mouth, tears under huge eyes. It was in this mask that mime Bip appeared before the audience at the Teatro de Posch in 1947. The sad, piercing Bip stepped from the stage of a tiny theater into the world - and conquered it.
In 1968, Tanya Balashova, a French actress of Russian origin, staged Lady Macbeth based on Chekhov's works. In the sixties, a young actor came to the theater, with whom Tanya Balashova will play in 1972 in the famous film "Tall blond in a black boot" - it was Pierre Richard.
Over the past decades, the small theater has staged Ionesco and Charles de Coster, Brecht and Kafka, authors of the great and unknown. In the seething theatrical world of Paris, the theater does not lose its face, it is always full.
