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(SARTRE, Jean-Paul after Alexendre Dumas). ~ Kean. [Theatre programme for the first season at the Théatre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris.] [Paris, 1954.]
Dumas’s Kean was first performed in Paris just three years after the English actor’s death and was re-invented by Sartre in the 1950s for Pierre Brasseur, on the actor’s suggestion.
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The premiere took place on 14 November 1953 and was directed by A.-M Julien. This copy of the programme is signed by Brasseur and by Roger Pigaut, Claude Gensac and Georges Paumier. The play was a great success and was published by Gallimard in 1954.
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