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| Address | Rue du Marché aux Herbes / Grasmarkt 66 1000 City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region Belgium |
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| Coordinates | 50°50′50″N 4°21′12″E / 50.84722°N 4.35333°E |
| Public transit | Brussels-Central |
| Type | Puppet theatre |
| Opened | 1830 |
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The Royal Theatre Toone (French: Théâtre royal de Toone; Dutch: Koninklijk Poppentheater Toone), often simply referred to as Toone, is a folkloric theatre of rod marionettes in central Brussels, Belgium, active since 1830, and the only traditional Brussels puppet theatre still in operation.[1]
Originally founded by Antoine "Toone" Genty in the Marolles/Marollen district of Brussels, since 1966, the theatre has been located at the end of two narrow alleyways, at 66, rue du Marché aux Herbes/Grasmarkt, near the Grand-Place/Grote Markt (Brussels' main square).[2] The theatre's premises also house a tavern and a small puppetry museum.[1] The current director is Nicolas Géal, also known as Toone VIII.[3]
The theatre still puts on puppet plays in the Brusselian dialect (also sometimes referred to as Marols or Marollien), the traditional Brabantian dialect of Brussels.[4] Performances are also given in other languages interspersed with Brusselian, always in the spirit of zwanze, a sarcastic form of folk humour considered typical of Brussels.[5][6]
- ^ a b "Théâtre Royal de Toone". www.toone.be. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ De Vries 2003, p. 48–49.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ State 2004, p. 356.
- ^ "ZWANZE: Définition de ZWANZE". www.cnrtl.fr (in French). Retrieved 2 February 2018.