Through the destiny of Jean Zay, the play tells of a man whose story is part of History.
Even if plenty of roads, junior schools and secondary schools in France bear his name, Jean Zay is today a little know character and it is joyful to see him brought into the spotlight of the stage with the direction of Raymond Vinciguerra. Deputy of the radical socialist party in 1932, he became Minister of National Education and responsible for Fine Arts in the Popular Front government of Léon Blum in June 1936. He was then barely 32 and can be considered as one of the most brilliant political personalities of the period. Once the Armistice of 1940 signed, he was identified as an enemy of the Vichy regime: a sham trial threw him in prison where he would stay for four years, before being removed by the militia and assassinated. The aim of this play concentrates on the prison years and draws on the writing of Jean Zay, specifically on the letters written in his cell. Here there is something to rejoice about, notably that his story comes to us hidden in the prams of his daughters, when they came to visit him with their mother... as an intergenerational witness.. for those to come.
Ce spectacle est présenté dans le cadre de l’hommage rendu par la Ville de Cannes à Jean Zay qui créa le Festival International du Film de Cannes en 1939
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