Voyage de Madame Knipper vers la Prusse Orientale

Voyage de Madame Knipper vers la Prusse Orientale (Journey of Madame Knipper to East Prussia) is inspired by the journey of Olga Knipper, an actress with the Moscow Art Theatre and Anton Chekhov's wife, who set off with other actors from the troupe to retrieve the body of her husband, who died in Badenweiler in 1904. Five characters in exile take advantage of a stopover to tell and act out the story of this journey. Their discourse restores the chaos of the war that preceded the Russian Revolution of 1905 and its bloody repression.
Two actors from the Comédie-Française are part of the adventure: Louis Arbessier and Joël Demarty, as well as Suzel Goffre, Raymond Jourdan, Rébecca Pauly.

In the program, Jean-Claude Fall writes:What happens to these characters (real or fictional) when it's all over and they find themselves "out there", excluded from History, the great one, the one of books, which will surely continue to be written without them? [...] This play acts, in fact, as a warning to those who refuse to observe and participate in the movement of history, who try to believe that what is, has always been and will always be. [...] Isn't this blindness already the lot of Western civilization? Does it not believe that it alone, and from all eternity, writes the history of this world?