Pylade, étude pasolinienne

With Sylvain Creuzevault and students from the Conservatoire national supérieur de Paris, Pasolini's theater of the spoken word vibrates the walls of La Commune. Pylade, the director's fifth Pasolinian study, proposes to metamorphose our values.

Pylade is part of the Pasolinian Studies project begun at the Conservatoire national supérieur de Paris in 2024. After four texts already adapted, La Commune invites Sylvain Creuzevault to continue with Pylade, a play written in free verse in 1966 and based on Greek theater.

Pasolini takes as his starting point L'Orestie and, more specifically, Les Euménides. In his poetic play, the author highlights what Aeschylus had already grasped: the changes in act in society. Thus Orestes becomes the symbol of new values, Pylade represents the bourgeois intellectual who embraces a revolutionary ideology, and Electra, Orestes' sister, embodies traditions.

If Pylade, staged with students from the Conservatoire National, is for Sylvain Creuzevault a study, it's because it's about "actors training themselves by forging an autonomy in the art of acting in rehearsal", according to the director. The voices of the chorus, essential to thought and critical spirit, discordant and separate from the protagonists, are at the center making the political modernity of the text heard.