Le Roi nu

With professional and amateur actors

Evgueni Schwartz wrote The Naked King in 1934 in the Soviet Union. Cunning, like his main character, he weaves together three Andersen fairy tales - The Pigman and the Princess, The Princess and the Pea, The Emperor's New Clothes - and invents a new fable that spectators have no trouble decoding: the Naked King is both Stalin and Hitler. The play, never performed during the author's lifetime, has since enjoyed worldwide triumph. And ironically, it's all the more topical today, given the temptation of so many leaders to play the sorcerer's apprentice, particularly on the other side of the Atlantic.