with Juliette Bialek, Valérie Dréville, Vladislav Galard, Pierre-Félix Gravière, Arthur Igual, Charlotte Issaly, Frédéric Noaille, Lucie Rouxel et Antonin Rayon (musician)

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.
To find out more 

Cast

dramaturgy Julien Vella
lighting Vyara Stefanova
set design Jean-Baptiste Bellon, Jeanne Daniel-Nguyen
music and sound design Antonin Rayon
make-up, wigs Mityl Brimeur
costumes Constant Chiassai-Polin
assistant director Ivan Marquez
stage manager Clément Casazza
sound manager Loïc Waridel

production Le Singe

coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, Festival d'Automne à Paris, La Comédie de Saint-Étienne, Théâtre Garonne - scène européenne à Toulouse, L'Empreinte - scène nationale Brive-Tulle, La Comédie de Béthune, Points communs - scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise

with the artistic participation of the Jeune théâtre national

the company is supported by the Ministère de la culture / Direction régionale des affaires culturelles Nouvelle-Aquitaine

in co-production with the Festival d'Automne à Paris

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.