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Year Zero/L'annee Zero |
| written by Julia Pascal French translation by Alain Carpentier |
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Year Zero/L'annee Zero |
| written by Julia Pascal French translation by Alain Carpentier |
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Year
Zero is a
bitter-sweet satire on Vichy France using the popular music of the
period to lampoon many of the attitudes of the Petainist French. Year
Zero is inspired by interviews conducted in the north of France,
where communists, Gaulists, collaborators and witnesses to head shaving
ceremonies provided the original source material.
Year Zero is directly inspired by those whose youth was touched by the Nazi occupation. The play exposes the day to day experiences of the men and women who suffered or profited from those zero years. Year Zero asks some sharp questions about France’s wartime history. With her French ensemble, Julia Pascal presents her British, French, German and Jewish cultural influences through text, cabaret, music and dance |
"The
company perform with immense verve and minimal props, used with dazzling
versatility. . .
. . . this show is physical theatre with a strong
moral and political charge"
The Stage
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director:
Julia Pascal
design
and choreography: lighting: Ian Watts sound: Colin Brown
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