Sylvain Creuzevault
Pétrole
novembernov 25 - december – dec 25
© Gideon Bachmann, Pier Paolo Pasolini alla Torre di Chia, Viterbo, 1974. Archivio cinemazero ©
Tuesday november 25
19h30
Wednesday november 26
19h30
Thursday november 27
19h30
Friday november 28
19h30
Saturday november 29
19h30
Sunday november 30
15h
Tuesday december 2
19h30
Wednesday december 3
19h30
Thursday december 4
19h30
Friday december 5
19h30
Saturday december 6
19h30
Sunday december 7
15h
Tuesday december 9
19h30
Wednesday december 10
19h30
Thursday december 11
19h30
Friday december 12
19h30
Saturday december 13
19h30
Sunday december 14
15h
Tuesday december 16
19h30
Wednesday december 17
19h30
Thursday december 18
19h30
Friday december 19
19h30
Saturday december 20
19h30
Sunday december 21
15h
Based on the novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini. French text René de Ceccatty. Adapted and directed by Sylvain Creuzevault. With Sharif Andoura, Pauline Bélier, Gabriel Dahmani, Boutaïna El Fekkak, Pierre-Félix Gravière, Anne-Lise Heimburger, Arthur Igual, Sébastien Lefebvre. Scenography Jean-Baptiste Bellon, Valentine Lê. Light Vyara Stefanova. Video Simon Anquetil. Music Pierre-Yves Macé. Son Loïc Waridel. Costumes Constant Chiassai-Polin. Masks Loïc Nébréda. Makeup and wigs Mityl Brimeur. Directing assistance Émilie Hériteau, Ivan Marquez. General and plateau management Clément Casazza. Production administration Anne-Lise Roustan. Production and distribution Élodie Régibier.
Production Le Singe
Coproduction Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe; Festival d’Automne à Paris; Bonlieu Scène nationale d’Annecy; La Comédie de Saint-Étienne – Centre dramatique national; Comédie, Centre dramatique national de Reims; L’empreinte, scène nationale Brive-Tulle; Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne; La Comète, National Stage – Châlons-en-Champagne; Malraux national stage Chambéry Savoie as part of the Interreg France-Suisse n°20919 program – LACS – Annecy-Chambéry-Besançon-Genève-Lausanne
The company is supported by the Drac Île-de-France – ministère de la Culture and the Region Île-de-France
The novel Pétrole by Pier Paolo Pasolini, translated from Italian by René de Ceccatty, is published by Gallimard, Collection L'Imaginaire, 2022 (revised and expanded edition, first published in 1995)
The Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe and the Festival d'Automne à Paris are co-producers of this show and present it as a co-realisation.
With the support of
In Pétrole, Sylvain Creuzevault tackles one of Pasolini's most ambitious projects. Via a text which has much in common with his brand of theatre – fragmentary and cascade-like, burlesque and spine-chilling – he continues his exploration into the foundations of our society.
Published seventeen years after his death, Pétrole (Petrolio) is one of Pier Paolo Pasolini's very last works-in-progress. Described by the director as "a continuity of forces in a discontinuity of forms", this collection of stories and its multiplicity of points of view seems to respond as much to the search for a new novel-based playing space as it does to the desire, in political terms, to better come to terms with an Italy in the grip of a strategy of tension. Pasolini’s fragmentary writing presents itself in a series of notes in which different visions, in the form of snippets of information, novelistic sketches, mystical fables, aesthetic and political reflections, are juxtaposed without any apparent logic. This enables the intertwining of the two parallel journeys that the engineer Carlo Valletti embarks upon, namely his meteoric rise within the ENI Oil Company and unbridled quest for sexual adventure. By giving shape to the wastelands of Pasolini's vision of heaven and hell in Italy of the 1960s and 1970s, the director continues to examine the genealogy of the struggles that have shaped our contemporary social organization.