The reception given to the stage debut of L’Annonce faite à Marie A double advent: 1912-1913

L'Annonce faite à Marie is the first play by Claudel to be staged, twice in less than a year, in France and then in Germany. It was first performed in Paris in December 1912 by Lugné-Poe at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre in an intimate and fervent atmosphere that echoed the symbolist style. In October 1913, the play, Germanized, was staged at the recently opened Art Institute in Hellerau, near Dresden, in the form of an avant-garde show, intended and supervised by the author.