Zazous, singing tomorrows

The zazous, do you know them? During the Second World War, in Berlin, Brussels, or Paris, young provocative, romantic, and boisterous girls and boys transgressed the rules by sporting extravagant clothing and hair fashion to exasperate the occupier and scandalize the collaborators. Reckless and unruly, determined not to let their youth be stolen by terror, they punctured the tires of the Gestapo, then went off to dance swing in clandestine cellars. We are going to tell you the stories of these preventers of marching in goose step, who were a link in the resistance. Of these reckless people who defied curfews to go and listen to forbidden music coming straight from Harlem: jazz. Discover this astonishing social fact which, from Boris Vian to Django Reinhardt, saved a generation from fear. In a show with the look of a musical, discover these zazous, who in the middle of the war, engraved the words of the heart on the walls of hope. It's going to rock, it's going to sing, swing… And (perhaps) awaken the resistant who sleeps in you. _______ From: Collective Writing / Director: Patricia Ide / With: Baptiste Blampain, Bénédicte Chabot, Laure Godisiabois, Antoine Guillaume, Cédric Raymond / Assistant director: Cachou Kirsch / Scenography: Renata Gorka / Costumes: Chandra Vellut / Musical direction: Pascal Charpentier / Stage management: Ryan Destree