Sylvain Creuzevault

Le Capital et son Singe

based on Capital by Karl Marx

Archive 2014

Theatre

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Directed by Sylvain Creuzevault
With Vincent Arot, Benoit Carré, Antoine Cegarra, Pierre Devérines, Lionel Dray, Arthur Igual, Clémence Jeanguillaume, Léo-Antonin Lutinier, Frédéric Noaille, Amandine Pudlo, Sylvain Sounier, Julien Villa, Noémie Zurletti
Lighting design, Vyara Stefanova and Nathalie Perrier
Stage design, Julia Kravtsova
Costume design, Pauline Kieffer and Camille Pénager
Masks, Loïc Nébréda
Stage manager, Michael Schaller
Production and distribution, Élodie Régibier
A production by Le Singe // Coproduction with Nouveau Théâtre d’Angers – CDN Pays de la Loire; Comédie de Valence – CDN Drôme Ardèche; La Criée – Théâtre national de Marseille; Le Parvis – Scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, Printemps des comédiens, MC2 Grenoble; La Filature – Scène nationale de Mulhouse, L’Archipel – Scène nationale de Perpignan, Théâtre National de Bruxelles, Le Cratère – Scène nationale d’Alès, Scènes croisées de Lozère, GREC 2014 Festival Barcelona, TnBA – Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine, NxtStp (with aid from the European Union Culture Programme); La Colline – théâtre national, Festival d’Automne à Paris // Collaboration La Colline – théâtre national, Festival d’Automne à Paris (for the performances in Paris from 5th September to 12th October) // With participation from Théâtre Garonne and Théâtre national de Toulouse //
The project is supported by the Direction générale de la création artistique du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication // With support from Adami // The show was first presented on 18th March 2014 at Nouveau Théâtre d’Angers – CDN Pays de la Loire
In partnership with France Culture

Sylvain Creuzevault has become a reference point for artists’ collectives seeking to invent a convivial, political and combative way of shaping today’s theatre. This privileged position stems, in part, from the success of his previous creations, among whose ranks was Notre Terreur (presented at La Colline – théâtre national with Festival d’Automne à Paris in 2009). The show’s coup de force was how it succeeded in grasping a whole chunk of the History of France (more specifically its revolutionary heritage) with a highly original mixture of joyful pleasure, political acrimony, and well-natured ease.

After several months of residency, involving around twenty collaborators, he now presents Le Capital et son Singe. This gigantic monument to the history of ideas, whose adaptation would have perturbed many a director, beckoned Sylvain Creuzevault towards a “hard and fast comedy”. Minus any moralizing, glossy utopia, or treatises on “political theatre”. And with no heroification of the immemorial worker or property owner... No : their standpoint, in the words of this enigmatic director, “is concerned not with a love of mankind but of what devours it”.