The stage adaptation of the France Inter podcast, downloaded by nearly four million listeners.
Accompanied by a cartoonist, a historian, a choir and amateur actors, this participatory theatrical event retraces the extraordinary destiny of Léon Blum, still too often reduced to his paid leave totem, even though he played a major political role in France in the XXᵉ century. This show also resonates with yesterday's hopes and today's frustrations, the possibilities of politics and its impotencies.
The request
La scène nationale Châteauvallon-Liberté and Radio France Studios wanted to adapt Philippe Collin's best-selling podcast for the stage.
Our response
- The adaptationand direction were entrusted to Philippe Collin, Violaine Ballet and Charles Berling, the latter playing Léon Blum
- A tour throughout France between 2023 and 2025
Philippe Collin's word:
It's a great joy and a real source of pride to be able to adapt a historical podcast to theater for the first time, and to shed light on the essential life and role of such an important man in our history. We've come up with an ambitious and unprecedented staging that will enable us to create something unique each time, always with the same objective: to make history!"
