Simone Weil, born in 1909, a philosopher and important figure of intellectual engagement, was a teacher, factory worker, union organizer, militant in the National Front party, combatant alongside the Spanish Republicans in the Durruti Column, then a farm worker. In 1940, Jewish and lucid about the tragedy gripping Europe, she fled Paris for Marseille where she became a Resistance fighter. She left France for New York on the penultimate ship accompanied by her parents. Once in the United States, she felt the absolute necessity of returning to Europe to once again fight in the Resistance. She was brought into General de Gaulle's cabinet in London where she wrote a large number of texts on France's future. She died at the age of 34, in 1943. Throughout her life as a writer, from the École Normale Supérieure (teachers college) at the start of the 1930s where the director nicknamed her “the red virgin” for her fervent support of the weakest members of society, to her last days impregnated by an ultimate mystical crisis, Simone Weil battled against social destitution, supported the worker's condition and politically, philosophically and spiritually defended the cause of freedom against oppression. Her style is incandescent and she loved the theatre, she even wrote a play that was never published. Laure Adler, drawing fragments from her corres-pondence with her brother, in certain philosophical and political writings, proposes, with the actress Anouk Grinberg, a staged reading. A voyage through Simone Weil's work and life that seeks to make the voice of those who will not submit heard.
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proposed by: Laure Adler
with: Olivier Py