Jan 08Jan 27, 2026
VIE ET DESTIN LIBERTÉ ET SOUMISSION
Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman • World premiere
EVERY HOUR, EVERY DAY, WE HAD TO FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO BE MEN…
Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman discovered Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate more than twenty years ago and has wanted to bring it to the stage ever since. The novel, finished in 1959 and banned from publication, depicts the disastrous Soviet regime, daring to compare it with the Nazi regime and the extermination of the Jewish people. Vasily Grossman drew on these two great tragedies of the 20th century to create one of that century’s greatest novels. He shows us how terror affects his characters, and above all, how their paralysing desire for submission kills off all resistance. Servitude is the major theme of this novel, the narrative thread that guides us through its world. Now, in the 21st century, when lies and terror are once more features of life in Russia, Life and Fate is astonishingly relevant. Grossman helps us understand what is happening right before our eyes today.
Conception et mise en scène Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman
Based on the work of Vassili Grossman
Artistic cocreation François Regnault
Traduction Alexis Berelowitsch, Anne Coldefy-Faucard
Lighting Nicolas Faucheux
Cast Pascal Bekkar, Pauline Bolcatto, Raphaèle Bouchard, Sophie Daull, Timothée Lepeltier, Pierre-Stefan Montagnier, Aurore Paris, Bertrand Pazos, Thibault Perrenoud
Production Compagnie Pandora. Coproduction Théâtre de la Ville-Paris.
Remerciements Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman tient à exprimer sa gratitude à toutes les actrices, à tous les acteurs (d’aujourd’hui et d’il y a vingt ans), aux étudiants, qui ont participé à l’aventure théâtrale exceptionnelle de Vie et destin. Leur engagement et leur confiance ont donné vie à ce projet avec une force et une humanité qui l’ont accompagnée à chaque étape.
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