''L'Otage'' is a three-act theatre play by the French author

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, and the first one of ''La Trilogie des Coûfontaine''.

Mises-en-scène

* 1913: Théâtre Scala, London * 1914:

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* 1928:

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, Théâtre de l'Odéon * 1931:

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, Théâtre des Arts * 1934:

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* 1947: Théâtre national de Chaillot * 1955:

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, Centre dramatique de l'Ouest * 1962:

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* 1962:

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, Tréteaux de France. * 1968:

Jean-Marie Serreau Jean-Marie Serreau (28 April 1915 – 22 May 1973) was a 20th-century French actor, theatre director and a former student of Charles Dullin. Serreau directed the in Paris during the 1950s-1960s and established the at in Vincennes in 1970. He ...

* 1977: Guy Rétoré, Théâtre de l'Est parisien,

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* 1995: Marcel Maréchal,

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* 2002:

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External links

* ''L'Otage'', édition Gallimard 1911
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