| THE WIDENING OF THE REPERTOIRE
Since 1946, the successive Managing Directors of
the Comédie-Française, André Obey, Pierre-Aimé
Touchard, Pierre Descaves and Claude de Boisanger have
left the marks of their tenures. Between 1960 and 1983,
three actor-directors were appointed: Maurice Escande
(1960-70), who opened up the theatre to new actors and
outside stage directors; Pierre Dux (1970-79, who continued this policy
with the Théâtre de l'Odéon and also celebrated the
tercentennial of Molière's death and worked on the
administrative reform and renovation of the theatre;
Jacques Toja (1979-83), who took on the responsibility of
the programming the Comédie-Française's tercentennial, and
celebrated the Odéon's bicentennial in 1982 by inviting
many great foreign companies.
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