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Joël Pommerat Stages the French Revolution: Ça ira: Fin de Louis, I
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 61, Number 2, Summer 2017 (T234)
- pp. 158-165
- Article
- Additional Information
Joël Pommerat created and staged with his Company Louis Brouillard a version of the onset of the French Revolution. Ça ira: La Fin de Louis focuses on the formation of a National Assembly by recreating debates from within the audience's space. The energetic production, like Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, foregrounds possibilities rather than lamenting dead ends. Any resemblance to today's political scene is, of course, intentional.