“Dogs of Europe”, “Les Films de ma vie”, “New Creation”… Nine shows to book

THE MORNING LIST

Before the shows designed for end-of-year celebrations invade the tables, we invite you to discover a show taken from a dystopian fairy tale, listen to the favorite soundtracks of an iconoclastic pianist or go to the roots of hip-hop .

“Suicide”: Return to Stalin’s Russia

“It’s a show about the reasons that kept us alive when everything was driving us to suicide”wrote Nadezhda Mandelstam about Suicide. Nikolai Erdman’s play, written in 1928, banned by the Stalinist regime in 1932 even before being performed, is a formidable strident farce, where political and existential dimensions mix behind the carefree vaudeville.

Jean Bellorini, the director of the Théâtre national populaire (TNP) in Villeurbanne, is proposing it again today, after signing a German version a few years ago with the Berliner Ensemble. He relies on his fine troupe of actors, singers and musicians to bring out the humor and craziness of the comedy, following in the footsteps of his anti-hero, a small man struggling in the chaos of the 1920s Soviet Union. Fabienne Darge

“Dogs of Europe”: League of States against Authoritarian Empire

2049. Europe is cut in two. One part lives under Russian authoritarian rule, the other, the League of European States, represents the free world. Such is the dystopian tale imagined by the Belarusian writer Alhierd Bacharevic (47) in his Dogs of Europepublished in 2017 and banned by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.

The political thriller is adapted by the Minsk Free Theater. Like the author, who lives in Austria, the troupe fled Belarus to settle in the UK in 2011. Its seventeen members, actors, dancers and singers, are accompanied by the music of the duo Balaklava Blues. A show to discover at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, in Paris, as part of the Autumn Festival. Brigitte Salino

“Par autan”: carried by the wind

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