With Juliette Bialek, Yanis Bouferrache, Gabriel Dahmani, Valérie Dréville, Vladislav Galard, Pierre-Félix Gravière, Arthur Igual, Charlotte Issaly, Frédéric Noaille, Vincent Pacaud, Naïsha Randrianasolo, Lucie Rouxel, Thomas Stachorsky and Manon Xardel

The Aesthetics of Resistance follows the rite of passage of a young German during the Second World War. A member of the anti-fascist resistance, he travels from Berlin to Spain and onto Stockholm, and through his encounters with all sorts of historic figures, including Bertolt Brecht, asks about possible communist unity. Coming from a working-class background, he also gains an education – and this is the essence and power of Peter Weiss’ novel –through his analysis of works of art to develop with his friends a genealogy of resistance-based art, free from all ideological injunction. With a company of seventeen actors putting forth a dishevelled, Dantesque performance, Sylvain Creuzevault questions European history from a communist point of view and in these uncertain times, builds an ark against the flood.

Cast

set design, props Loïse Beauseigneur, Valentine Lê
costumes, make-up Jeanne Daniel-Nguyen, Sarah Barzic
make-up, wigs Mityl Brimeur
lighting Charlotte Moussié in collaboration with Vyara Stefanova
stage and machinery manage Léa Bonhomme
video creation and control Simon Anquetil
stage manager Arthur Mandô
video Simon Anquetil
assistant director Ivan Marquez
dramaturgy Julien Vella
original music, sound Loïc Waridel
original music Pierre-Yves Macé


production Théâtre national de Strasbourg
co-production and delegated production Le Singe

with the artistic participation of the Jeune théâtre national

Le Singe is supported by the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d'Île-de-France - ministère de la culture

Peter Weiss is represented by L'Arche, agence théâtrale

L'Esthétique de la résistance by Peter Weiss, translated from the German by Éliane Kaufholz-Messmer, éditions Klincksieck, 2017

Biography of Sylvain Creuzevault

Sylvain Creuzevault began directing in 2003, with the group d'ores et déjà, of which he is a co-founder. He made a name for himself in 2009 with Notre terreur at La Colline, a play about the Comité de salut public in 1793. This was followed by two shows on Marx (Le Capital et son Singe in 2014, Banquet Capital in 2018) and in 2016 Angelus Novus AntiFaust. 


Associate artist at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe since 2016 with his company Le Singe, he is devoting a cycle to Dostoyevsky, creating The Demons, The Grand Inquisitor and The Brothers Karamazov from 2018 to 2021. In 2023, he creates Edelweiss [France Fascisme], the counterpart to Peter Weiss's L'Esthétique de la résistance, presented a few months earlier at the Théâtre national de Strasbourg.