Révoltes [Egmont]

Paris, 2020. In an empty theatre transformed, for lack of performances, into a film studio, two actors without an audience perform a show based on Goethe’s Egmont.

At the same time, an orchestra gathers to perform the music from Beethoven’s Egmont: incidental music without dialogue.

In short, everyone is playing, filling an absence.

Theatre and music, face to face, pit their strengths against each other, complementing each other to tell a story. What do they tell about? The Beggars’ Revolt in the Spanish Netherlands in the 16^th century: an uprising suppressed like one stokes a fire.

What’s at stake? Revolutions, class struggle, history, Europe, the future. Something is brewing that is about to explode.