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Published in 1961, at the height of the Algerian War (1954-1962), Les Paravents, considered by Genet to be "the pinnacle of his theatrical work", had to wait until 1966 before being staged in Paris, where it caused a huge scandal.



The play is certainly one of the founding pillars of contemporary French theatre. Roger Blin premiered Les Paravents at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1966, and it caused a huge scandal, with some people seeing it as an offense to France. Set in an Arab country colonised by Europeans, its starting point is the mirroring and chaos of the Algerian war. With this epic and insolent fresco, which brings together a hundred characters, Genet thwarts and disturbs our codes and expectations. In a unique language, he sweeps us away and illuminates the world of the dead and the world of the living in a series of tableaux that make up a fascinating political and poetic ritual. 60 years after its creation, 16 actors and actresses form this human community that also tells a story of immigration in France.



After La Dame aux camélias and Mes frères, Arthur Nauzyciel presents his 3rd production in Rennes. He returns to Jean Genet, whose Splendid's he staged in 2015. Writer, poet and one of the twentieth century's leading authors, Jean Genet, the "irredeemable" praised by Cocteau and Sartre, created a powerful, sensual and moving body of work that gave voice and body to the marginalised and excluded.