Underground & cool · Theatre (Peter Brook's house) · €€ · 10e · Canal Saint-Martin & Gare du Nord
Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
Peter Brook took over this gutted 1876 hall in 1974 and left the scorched, peeling pink-red walls exactly as he found them; it has staged theatre, opera and chamber music in the round ever since, with no proscenium grandeur.
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The distressed interior is the point — book the stalls to sit close in the bowl. A short walk from Gare du Nord.
Getting there
- La Chapelle2130 m · 2 min walk
- Gare du NordRER E380 m · 7 min walk
- Gare du Nord45RER BRER D380 m · 7 min walk
Within a few minutes' walk
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The district · 10e
Canal Saint-Martin & Gare du Nord — Canal ParisThe locks and iron footbridges of the Canal Saint-Martin, the South Asian Passage Brady, the Faubourg Saint-Denis food strip, and two big stations. Young, mixed, and where a lot of the good cheap eating is.
Best for: Twenty-somethings and food-first travellers; lively rather than pretty.
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