Mlle Marthe

Mlle Marthe (d. after 1783), was a French stage actress and theatre director, active in Saint-Domingue.

Marthe was originally engaged as an actress and singer at the Comédie du Cap in Cap-Francais, which was founded in 1764.

In 1767, the first theatre play was staged in a temporary barracks hall at Saint-Marc by the actors Charron and Goulart from Comédie du Cap, and a permanent playhouse with 400 seats was built.

The 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake razed the theatre to the ground during a performance of Rousseau's le Devin du Village.

Marthe's sponsors immediately financed the building of a new playhouse, and in the meantime the directors continued to schedule the comedies and light operas in a large tent.