The 120 years and 120 times of health facilities on the hill of Bligny.

Name: The 120 years and 120 times of health facilities on the hill of Bligny.
Start: 2023-09-16T11:10:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Théâtre de Bligny - Compagnie du Théâtre de Bligny

Everything is in place and everything has changed!

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Show up in the square of the Theatre of Bligny a quarter of an hour before the start of the tour of the Bligny Hospital

Association du Centre Hospitalier de Bligny

Everything is in place and everything has changed!

The past of the Bligny Hospital is not an obsolette vestige. This rich and dense history is the precursor and the ferment of the Hospital of Bligny today.

What an adventure!

Relive the past by looking at the present, and understand the present in the light of an intense, innovative and genetic past.
Everything is there, and everything is different!

This little train ride around the Hospital of Bligny puts the present in perspective with its past.

The departure and arrival of the commented ballad is in front of the Théâtre de Bligny.

Each visitor will have in hand a photo album (which he can take at the end of the visit and which shows how it was before. We realize then that it is the same story that continues, a hundred and twenty years later are started...

About the location

Théâtre de Bligny - Compagnie du Théâtre de Bligny

Centre hospitalier 91640 Fontenay-lès-Briis

Essonne
Île-de-France

The theatre of Bligny was built within the sanatoriums of Bligny to "educate and entertain the residents of the sanatoriums", high point of a project "artistico-pedagogical" engaged in 1903.
The Théâtre de Bligny (architect: A. Colin) was inaugurated on Tuesday 19 September 1934\. Dr Urbain Guinard, who became physician-director at the end of 1939, greatly appreciated the cabaret singers; in his youth he had dreamed of becoming one of them.
From 1942, on his initiative, the theatre was regularly transformed into "Cabaret de la Longue Chaise".
Since the war, artists regularly "try" their new shows on the Bligny public.
Apart from the plays and the cabaret, it serves for the patronal feasts of Saint Louis, for Saint Catherine, the reception of the generous donors of the sanatoriums with the complicity of the stars, and for some feasts of Saint Nicholas.
It is also a cinema since its opening. In Bligny were held several film premieres by the authors Noël-Noël and Pierre Cardinal as well a