Kessel, la liberté à tout prix

This one on stage tells the extraordinary life of the writer, reporter and academician Joseph Kessel. Exalted by life, by the beauty of the world, he went through the twentieth century, of which he was the tireless observer.

He experienced both world wars up close, witnessed Ireland breaking free from English rule, drank with Russian soldiers in Siberia during the revolution of 1917, saw the rise and fall of Nazism and the birth of Israel, tracked slave traders in the Horn of Africa, raised a glass with Edith Piaf and Humphrey Bogart, explored countries as remote as Afghanistan was in the middle of the century, and discovered and brought Alcooliques Anonymes to France...

The show seeks to convey the vital breath of this extraordinary man, the whirlwind that was his life.