Quotation | Total Theatre Magazine Print Archive

“The customers of the Funambules had always been the commoners, criminals and layabouts of the Boulevard du Temple. But the early thirties saw the flowering of the romantic movement in Paris, and suddenly the literati, the educated classes discovered what had been there all the time – plays of a romantic nature where grand emotions were given free rein, melodrama, simplicity and lyricism, hand in hand with a hot-blooded approach to life and art.”

— Desmond Jones in ‘Deburau’