Fear and Misery of the Third Reich

By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Julie Duclos

Duration: 2 hrs. 15 min.

11 January – 7 February

Odéon 6^e

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With Rosa-Victoire Boutterin, Daniel Delabesse, Philippe Duclos, Pauline Huruguen, Yohan Lopez, Stéphanie Marc, Mexianu Medenou, Barthélémy Meridjen, Étienne Toqué and Myrthe Vermeulen

While Brecht is known as the theoretician of epic theatre, he is no less one of its major storytellers. In Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, all the layers of society are scrutinised in their compromising behaviour and acts of resistance, like so many snapshots of Germany in the 1930s. For Julie Duclos, taking hold of this spirited, poetic play with modern-day significance is a way of illuminating how fascism infiltrates daily life, how lies and fear creep into people’s bodies and change their relationships, including and especially, in places where we least expect it. Through a production focused on acting technique and large and refined stage design, she reveals what wells up in the corners of our existence.

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Duration: 2 hrs. 15 min.

Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm
no performances on Mondays and Sunday 12 January

in French with English surtitles on 18, 25 January and 1 February

Performances with audio description on Thursday 30 January and Sunday 2 February

Previews on 9 and 10 January

Happy Thursday on Thursdays 16, 23, 30 January and 6 February

translation Pierre Vesperini
set design Matthieu Sampeur
lighting Dominique Bruguière in collaboration with Émilie Fau
video Quentin Vigier
sound Samuel Chabert
costumes Caroline Tavernier
assistant director Antoine Hirel

production L'In-quarto
coproduction Théâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes, Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, Comédie de Reims - centre dramatique national, Théâtre de Lorient - centre dramatique national, La Comédie de Saint-Étienne - centre dramatique national, Comédie de Caen - centre dramatique national de Normandie

with the support of the ministère de la culture - direction régionale des affaires culturelles Île-de-France
the company is subsidised by the ministère de la culture - direction régionale des affaires culturelles Île-de-France

creation in september 2024

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Actress and director Julie Duclos trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique (class of 2010). She presented her first show there: Fragments d'un discours amoureux, based on a play by Roland Barthes. In 2012, she created Masculin/ Féminin, a work in progress in which the boundaries between reality and fiction are freely explored. Two years later she reunited with the same group of actors to direct (in collaboration with Guy-Patrick Sainderichin) Nos Serments, based on Jean Eustache's La Maman et la putain, at the Théâtre national de la Colline. It was also at La Colline, where she was associate artist from 2015 to 2017, that she staged MayDay, by Dorothée Zumstein (2015) and Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck (2019), which premiered at the Avignon Festival. The show is presented at the Odéon in 2020, where she returns two years later with Lars Norén's Kliniken. Julie Duclos is an associate artist at the Théâtre national de Bretagne in Rennes.

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