Poche-Montparnasse Theatre

The Theatre de Poche-Montparnasse occupies a space that began as an ordinary café. In nineteen forty-two, during the German Occupation of Paris, a man named Marcel Oger transformed that café into a tiny performance venue hidden at the end of a quiet impasse. He named it the Theatre of Pocket because the original main room could hold only sixty people. The venue provided a clandestine hub for young authors and actors to express themselves away from the pressures of the wartime city.