Guerre et Paix, une histoire d’aujourd’hui

Walking the fine line between documentary and theatrical fiction, Louise Lévêque revisits *War and Peace*. Living through the fire without giving up on love and hope: a lesson for today? In a post-nuclear world, the Moscow metro serves as a refuge. Underground, three adults start history afresh, armed with the tools of theatre… Co-written by Maruska Le Moing and Louise Lévêque, this freedom-loving adaptation draws on Tolstoy’s tragic icons and, from our own present day, the story of a war that gripped Europe in 2022. Driven by a trio of actors who switch roles on the fly, the saga unfolds to the rhythm of a whirlwind of images that set the successive scenes. The Rostov, Bolkonsky and Bezukhov families parade before us, alongside Putin’s war and dystopian flashes… All these elements form part of an epic whose vitality reminds us that no catastrophe is the final word of fate.