Edelweiss [France Fascism]

The theatrical work that Sylvain Creuzevault invented with his actors and actresses is built on "making faces." He elicits these faces through playing, experiments with them onstage, and produces them in front of audience members. In The Brothers Karamazov, his material was the novel’s characters. This time, the team uses historical figures: writers and politicians chosen from the French far right, from the end of the 1930s to the collaboration and the purge. Their speeches, their books, and their words are the material of the show. In it is featured the episode that Céline grotesquely immortalized in Castle to Castle: Sigmaringen, the eagle’s nest in the middle of the Black Forest where Pétain and his government had fled to, followed by a string collaborators in disarray. Following their work on German resistance under the Nazi regime, the company decided, symmetrically, to investigate French Facism from the same era. But investigating it also means investigating antifascism, what it is, what it can do, and what it does, or not. The show is not a historical reconstitution, but a comedy written at a time of danger. Now.

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And to be discovered at the MC93 in Bobigny
from 9 to 12 November 
The Aesthetics of Resistance
based on the novel by Peter Weiss
adapted and directed by Sylvain Creuzevault
with students from Group 47 of the Strasbourg National Theatre School and actors from his company.
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