Théâtre Jean-Deschamps
Open-air summer theatre on a former cloister site, with tiered seating beneath medieval ramparts.
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This guide to the Théâtre Jean-Deschamps in Carcassonne begins in a town council meeting in June nineteen hundred and eight, when a local doctor pitched an open-air stage inside the medieval Cité for reasons both artistic and commercial. It reaches back to the canons who once lived, prayed and ate on this ground behind the basilica, and to the rubble their community left behind. Best heard from the upper tiers, facing the stage with the ramparts at your back.
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