Théâtre du Peuple

The Théâtre du peuple is a theater located in Bussang, France, built in 1895 by Maurice Pottecher.

[1][2] The theatre was added to the list of historical monuments in 1975 and is always in activity, putting on a new performance each year.

Originally it was an open-air theatre, in which Pottecher staged folk and morality plays, often performed by locals in dialect.

Pottecher used his success as a platform to launch a people's theatre campaign (soon taken up by Nobel-prize winner Romain Rolland).

Pottecher worked at the Théâtre du Peuple until his death in 1960, after which members of his family continued the tradition.