Fifty years ago in Paris Jacques Copeau founded a theatre from which the modern movement in France has grown and constantly been enriched
Who was Jacques Copeau ? What did he do to exert such an influence?
CARL WILDMAN attended the evocative celebrations In Copeau's little theatre on the Left Bank: among the personalities present he found Copeau's daughter, the actress and designer MARIE-HÉLÈNE DASTÉ, and MICHEL SAINT-Denis, nephew of Copeau and one of his spiritual heirs
An extended version of the programme first broadcast in November 1963