With
Sharif Andoura, Pauline Bélier, Gabriel Dahmani, Boutaïna El Fekkak, Pierre-Félix Gravière, Anne-Lise Heimburger, Arthur Igual, Sébastien Lefebvre
Petrol was Pasolini's final work, published seventeen years after his assassination. Written as a series of notes in which narrative fragments, symbolic visions, and political and aesthetic reflections are interwoven. Engineer Carlo Valletti’s character is split in two at the start of the novel. His dual journeys intertwine. While Carlo I experiences a rapid rise within the National Oil Company, Carlo II devotes himself entirely to a boundless sexual quest in Rome’s train stations and wastelands. Through these different perspectives, Pasolini investigates his immediate reality: Italy in the grip of the ‘strategy of tension’ in the 60’s and 70’s. By choosing Petrol, Sylvain Creuzevault brings together literature pushed to its limits and a form of theatre which, like the novel, stems from an unfinished montage.
Cast
French text
René de Ceccatty
set design
Jean-Baptiste Bellon, Valentine Lê
lighting designer
Vyara Stefanova video
designer
Simon Anquetil, François-Joseph Botbol
music creation
Pierre-Yves Macé
sound designer
Loïc Waridel
costume designer
Constant Chiassai-Polin
masks
Loïc Nébréda
make-up, wigs
Mityl Brimeur
intern
Toscane Piard
stage direction assistant
Émilie Hériteau, Ivan Marquez
general stage manager
Clément Casazza
administration
Anne-Lise Roustan
production and tour management
Élodie Régibier
production
Le Singe
coproduction
Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe, Festival d’Automne, Bonlieu scène nationale d’Annecy, Comédie de Saint-Étienne, Comédie de Reims, L’empreinte scène nationale Brive-Tulle, Théâtre Vidy- Lausanne, La Comète scène nationale de Châlons-en-Champagne, Malraux scène nationale de Chambéry Savoie la compagnie Le Singe est soutenue par le ministère de la culture / Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France et par la région Île-de-France
as part of the Franco-Swiss Interreg Project n°20919 — LACS — Annecy-Chambéry-Besançon-Genève-Lausanne
in collaboration with the Festival d’Automne
Five dates
January 27, 2018 Banquet Capital, after Karl Marx.
September 25, 2020 The Grand Inquisitor, after Fedor Dostoyevsky.
July 21, 2021 The Brothers Karamazov, after Fedor Dostoyevsky.
May 23, 2023 The Aesthetics of Resistance, after Peter Weiss.
September 19, 2023 Edelweiss [France Fascisme], creation.
