Max Jacob Theatre [Quimper]
type: Item
description: Theatre building in Quimper, France
description: theater in Quimper @nl
alternative label: Max Jacob Theatre
EUTA building identifier: 1625
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: France
City: Quimper
GPS: Point(-4.0978 47.9947)
Wikidata source: Q19407240
opening date: 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
Address: 6, boulevard Dupleix
architect: Georges Lafont
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Les Archives du Spectacle ID: /o/6626-Theatre-Max-Jacob
Carthalia ID: 1392
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1899-1904 by G. Lafont as Théâtre municipal, on a site bequested to the city of Quimper by Urbain Couchouren. Opened 1904. Later renamed in honour of the Quimper-born writer, Max Jacob (1883-1944), who wrote a novel and a play, Le Terrain Bouchaballe, about the political quarrels around the Couchouren bequest and the building of the theatre. 254 seats. Currently used by the Théâtre de Cournouaille, scène nationale de Quimper company.