La Criée Theatre
Former fish auction hall on the Old Port, now an eight-hundred-seat national theatre behind its original stone facade.
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About this audio guide
This guide to La Criée Theatre traces nearly seventy years of fishmongers auctioning sardines and sea urchins on the Old Port quay, until the trade moved north in the mid nineteen-seventies and the hall went silent. You'll hear how director Marcel Marechal staked a claim on the empty building with a single performance before the builders even arrived, and how architect Bernard Guillaumot was bound by the port's own rules in the renovation that followed. Look at the stone facade in front of you, close to unchanged since the fishmongers' day.
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