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

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pétrole, translated from the Italian by René de Ceccatty, Gallimard, collection L'Imaginaire, 2022 (revised and expanded edition, first published in 1995)


set design
Jean-Baptiste Bellon, Valentine Lê

lighting
Vyara Stefanova

video
Simon Anquetil

video framing
François-Joseph Botbol

music
Pierre-Yves Macé

sound
Loïc Waridel

costumes
Constant Chiassai-Polin

masks
Loïc Nébréda

make-up, wigs
Mityl Brimeur

assistant director
Émilie Hériteau, Ivan Marquez

stage management
Clément Casazza

stage management props
Camille Menet

lighting
Charly Hové, Lison Royet

dresser 
Sarah Barzic

mask intern
Toscane Piard

set design intern 
Lévana Tortolo

costume interns 
Agathe Brau, Mahë Foubert

production administration
Anne-Lise Roustan

production and distribution 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 compagnie Le Singe is supported by the Ministère de la culture / Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d'Île-de-France and by the Région Île-de-France.


as part of the Franco-Swiss Interreg Project n°20919 - LACS - Annecy-Chambéry-Besançon-Genève-Lausanne

with the support of Théâtre du Soleil and La Commune, center dramatique national d'Aubervilliers

and with the artistic participation of the Jeune Théâtre National


in co-production with Festival d'Automne


The company is subsidized by the Ministère de la Culture/Drac Île-de-France and by the Région Île-de-France

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.