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mardi 02 juillet 2019
“Les Damnés/The Damned” by Comédie Française, directed by Ivo van Hove.
Par Redaction
First created in July 2016, the play is on tour after this year’s successful revival at Comédie française, and one may want to ask what relevance this story of the desintegration of a wealthy family of German industrialists’ in the era of Nazism may bear today. “Les damnés” opens with a scene of a family celebration interrupted by news of fire at the Reichstag. We are in 1933, and the fire, allegedly started by a “Dutch communist” (as we are told a number of times), is a watershed moment set to usher in Hitler’s regime and change life as the members of Essenbeck family know it forever.