“Julius Caesar”, Shakespeare in America
When he created “Julius Caesar” in Boston in 2008, a few weeks before the American presidential election, Arthur Nauzyciel created one of his major productions. Sixteen years later, the director reactivates his work bathed in the velvety sixties atmosphere of the Kennedy years, with a helping jazz trio. The times collide and, this time, the Shakespearean intrigue rubs up against the re-election of Donald Trump, finding in the conspiracy of Brutus against Caesar a mirror held up to rising populism.
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, directed by Arthur Nauzyciel, from January 9 to 17 at TNB (Rennes) then on tour to Villeurbanne and Sceaux
“Birgit Kabarett”, a party to laugh at the powerful
Bruno Retailleau or Marine Le Pen, Vincent Bolloré or Bernard Arnault: on stage, the names that make up French political life parade as quickly as governments change. But, for once, these sad sires make people laugh rather than cry. It must be said that the girls of the Birgit Ensemble portrayed them with irresistible bite. In this cabaret, creators Jade Herbulot and Julie Bertin seize current events and make a party of them, transforming the despair that lurks into a burst of collective laughter.
Birgit Kabarett New opus, from January 8 to 19, 2025 at TGP (Saint-Denis)
“Great fear and misery of the IIIe Reich », Brecht’s emergency
Not only does Brecht’s theater reveal itself today with renewed relevance, but Julie Duclos’s cold and ethereal staging gives it all its edge. In “Great fear and misery of IIIe Reich”, the German author described, one painting after another, the pernicious rise of fascism in people’s minds. He then fled the Nazi regime which burned his books. Carried by intense actors, this text returns to us at the Odéon with a certain urgency, at a time when fascist speeches are making their way back to the four corners of the world.
“Great fear and misery of the IIIe Reich” by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Julie Duclos, from January 11 to February 7 at the Odéon (Paris) then on tour to Villeurbanne and Lille
“Piste…”, memorial road trip in Namibia
In the Namib Desert, “only the mineral remembers” the tens of thousands of deaths of the Herero and Nama peoples. It was the first genocide of the 20the century, and it was perpetrated by a Germany in full colonial expansion. In this autobiographical road trip, for which she signs her first production, Penda Diouf, now an important writer in French-speaking theater, crosses Namibia listening to its ghosts. And unearths lessons for the present in the flaws of the past.
“Pistes…” by Penda Diouf, creation at the Théâtre du Nord (Lille) from January 22 to 25, then on tour to Evry, Dijon, Paris and Poitiers.
“The Aesthetics of Resistance”, from Piaf to Kafka
Originally a novel by Peter Weiss, a dive into the history of Europe from 1937 to 1945. The author articulates a deep and fascinating reflection on the usefulness of art in emancipation. of the people. Piaf, Baker and Dietrich are featured, as are the works of Brueghel, Picasso and Kafka. Carried by young actors from the TNS school, Sylvain Creuzevault’s staging impresses with its breadth and breath, and makes us think again about the meaning of artistic creation where we tend to forget it.
The Aesthetics of Resistance by Peter Weiss, directed by Sylvain Creuzevault, from January 10 to 12 at the TnBA (Bordeaux) then on tour to Brive
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