Description
Contemporary play (based on a true story) adapted from the book by Gabriel Arout
The Th%E9%E2tre de Poche%A0’s review:
Some stories hit us with full force and keep us on the edge of our seats until the very last moment.
YES is one of those stories. In a closed-door setting of rare intensity, two men who are polar opposites are forced to look at each other, to confront one another… and then, perhaps, to listen to one another. Without ever resorting to easy solutions or pathos, the play explores the darkest corners of humanity with remarkable intelligence and restraint. The staging is formidably effective, and the two actors are deeply moving in their precision.
The play hits you like a shockwave. Then comes the silence.
The silence of a spellbound audience, before a long and deeply moving ovation finally expresses what words can no longer convey.
A German camp in 1944
As a form of “entertainment,” the SS have locked a French Jewish tailor and a former member of the SA—the Nazi militia disavowedby Hitler in 1934 and persecuted ever since the Night of the Long Knives.
Whoever kills the other before dawn will have his life spared.
Trapped like a tarantula and a scorpion in a jar, will they give in to blackmail and barbarism, or will they manage, beyond hatred and prejudice, to find common ground and say “YES” to one another?
Press excerpt: The staging intensifies the power of this closed-door drama. The actors captivate and move us with the authenticity of their performances. A powerful, poignant, and deeply eloquent play that reminds us that words can save, and that listening can heal. Critiquetheatreclau
