►By RER: Line A to stop Nanterre-Préfecture (attention: fare differs from inside Paris tickets). Free shuttles to the theatre. To get to the shuttle stop take the left staircase at the exit of the RER, cross the street at the pedestrian crossing and walk 10 meters to the left until the panel RATP.
►By foot: from the RER "Nanterre-Préfecture": (to the right) Rue salvador Allende - Rue Pablo Neruda - Avenue Joliot Curie (10 minutes walk)
►By bus: from the RER "Nanterre-Préfecture" take the bus line n° 160 or 358 (3rd stop) (Joliot Curie - Courbevoie)
►By car:
1) Access by the RN13, place de la Boule, then follow the street panels.
2) Access by the A86, direction La Défense, exit Nanterre Centre, then follow street panels.
3) From Paris Porte Maillot, take the avenue Charles de Gaulle until the pont de Neuilly, after the bridge take to your right the ring road direction Nanterre, follow Nanterre Centre, then follow the street panels.
The location is open one month before the beginning of the representation.
On the website: on-line box office
The website of the theatre offers you the possibility to reserve your tickets on-line one month before the beginning of each representation. A link to the box office is available at the bottom of every page of the website of the theatre.
NEW: by purchaising your tickets on the internet, get 10% discount on the menue of the tavern Maître Kanter in Rueil (on presentation of the ticket of the same day).
►By telephone ► Reservation 01 46 14 70 00
Schools01 46 14 70 61
Groups of friends, companies 01 46 14 70 12
Associations 01 46 14 70 59
► At the theatre box office Tuesday to Saturday from 12pm to 7pm
►By mail The reservation must arrive latest 10 days before the chosen date, accompanied by a check payable to the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers.
You are regularly coming to the Théâtre des Amandiers or going to other theatres, you are particularly interested in certain forms of shows, you wish to receive information on our programme or you desire to be informed about events that might interest you: help us to communicate better by establishing an information that meets your expectations. Don't hestitate to contact us!
The theatre offers many benefits for groups (of minimum10 persons) wishing to subscibe to the theatre. We offer guided visits to the theatre, our posters, press kits, pedagogical kits, meetings with the artistic teams, free entrance to all our debates and to all readings. Furthermore to these advantages, we offer a free subsciption to the spectator who organizes the groupe.
Around the shows, companies can achieve their public relation and their conferences in one of the three stages of the theatre. The restaurant of the theatre allows to organize lunch and dinner inside the building.
The artisic team of the theatre is leading training workshops in colleges and high schools.
Teaching dossiers and documents on the shows. In order to prepare to the best the visits of the pupils in our theatre, we are helding at the disposal of the teachers the press kit, available on the home page. We can also send by mail the pedagogical kit according to availability.
Meeting the artistic teams. The theatre organizes meetings with the artistic teams with pupils and students before or after the shows.
Visting the theatre. Throughout the season, subscibers, college and high school students can visit the theatre and its backstage. These tours are free and take place in the morning.
University Paris X. The theater is partner of the entire educational program of the DESS theatre - staging and dramaturgy - directed by Jean-Louis Besson.
Since 2004, wishing to get closer to its public, the Theatre Nanterre-Amandiers organizes readings of authors related to the programme, as well as small theatrical forms which are easy to move and to present outside of its own walls. These encounters are an occasion for everybody to discover an author, his language, his universe and, at the same time, expand the theatrical journey.
Throughout the season the theatre proposes a workshop on theatrical practise. Open exclusively to the habitants of Nanterre, this weekly workshop offers non-professionals to get acquainted to theatrical practise within small working groups. One workshop is lead by Marc Prin, the other by Anne Dupuis. We propose a demanding but joyfull approach to theatrical practise, focused on the relationship to the other, the text and space as well as the mobilization of energies. Open to all, the workshop's focus in on the diversity of each participant intending to bring the groupe through an exiting theatrical journey.
Calendar: October 2009 to Mai 2010 Registration end of September 2009. Attention: limited number of places!
Other workshops will be proposed during school holidays. Complete information will be on www.nanterre-amandiers.com.
1965:First Festival of Nanterre by the Company Pierre Debauche in a tent at a place called Côte des Amandiers (almond coast) which takes the name of Théâtre des Amandiers.
1966: Second Festival of Nanterre in the abandoned military hangar on the ground of the actual Faculty of Arts.
1967: Third Festival of Nanterre in the Palais des Sports.
1968: Agreement between the State and the City to built a Maison de la Culture (House of Culture) in Nanterre. 1969: Opening of the temporary building and prefiguration of the Maison de la Culture under the direction of Pierre Debauche and Pierre Laville. 1971: Creation of the Centre Dramatique National (National Drama Center) of Nanterre.
1974: Opening of the site of the futur Théâtre des Amandiers. Pierre Debauche choses to keep the direction of the Maison de la Culture in order to ensure the construction of the building. Xavier Pommeret takes over the direction of the Centre Dramatique National. 1976: Constitution of the Association Maison de la Culture.Opening of the final building of the Théâtre des Amandiers. 1978: Appointment of Raoul Sangla as Director of the Maison de la Culture.
1982:Dissolution of the Maison de la Culture and the Centre Dramatique National of Nanterre. Constitution of the Company Nanterre-Amandiers Ltd. of which Patrice Chéreau and Catherine Tasca are named directors.
1990: Jean-Pierre Vincent takes over the direction of Nanterre-Amandiers. 1991: Georges Apershis' ATEM moves to Nanterre. Thus the contemporary musical theatre is regularly presented in the programming.
1995: Installation of a permanent troupe of actors. Stanislas Nordey and Jean Jourdheuil are associated to the artistic work of Nanterre-Amandiers. 1997:Stanislas Nordey and his troupe leave the theatre.
2001: Jean-Pierre Vincent leaves the Théâtre des Amandiers. Departure of ATEM.
2002: Appointment of Jean-Louis Martinelli at the direction of the Théâtre des Amandiers.
Le Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers est membre de l'Union des Théâtres de l'Europe.
