They never gave up or gave in, and this is perpetually relevant.” Yet the heart of this story is not the injustice itself, but the moving fact that people of character and fortitude - Émile Zola, Georges Piquart, and the Dreyfus family - risked their lives, careers, and fortunes to get to the truth. “It spectacularly exposed the virulent right-wing forces in French society - forces that can be traced down to our own day, and not only in France. “ The Dreyfus Affair is a symbol of injustice,” said playwright Wolf, founder and executive director of ERC, in a statement. The two actors will be joined by Mark Andrew Coffin (Commandant Hubert-Joseph Henry), Dee Pelletier (Madame Bastian), Meghan Picerno (Lucie Dreyfus), Daniel Rowan (Maximilien von Schwartzkoppen), Mark Light-Orr (Count Marie Charles Ferdinand Wallin-Esterhazy), and Richard Waddingham (Lieutenant-Colonel Mercer Paty de Clam). The cast will be headed by Tony nominee Max von Essen ( An American in Paris) in the title role of Alfred Dreyfus and Mark Evans (Irish Rep's Finian's Rainbow) as his devoted brother, Mathieu Dreyfus. Sanders, this multi-media production illuminates the controversial story of the 1894 treason conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus that had a decades-long reverberation in the political landscape of France and the rest of the world. For Zadoc Kahn (1839-1905), Narcisse Leven (1833-1915), Isaïe Levaillant, Henri Aron (*), Salomon Reinach (1858-1932) and Bernard Lazare, members of the Committee of Defense against Anti-Semitism, it was a constant combat against the contemporary upsurge of hate and exclusion throughout France.Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) will return to BAM Fisher with a two-week run of Eve Wolf's The Dreyfus Affair, which will be presented April 27–May 7 at the Brooklyn venue.ĭirected by Donald T. Although it spurred a handful of men led by Theodor Herzl and the Zionist Actions Committee to look to Basle and further afield, towards Zion, for the immense majority of French Jews it was an opportunity to assert or confirm their legal status, republicanism and wish for cultural and political integration. This affair that profoundly divided the French, enflamed the press, brought crowds into the streets and mobilised every political faction from the royalists to the anarchists, was experienced and regarded in different ways by French Jews. In July 1906, the Supreme Court proclaimed his absolute innocence and he was reinstated in the army with the rank of major and named Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur. At the end of 1899 there was only one subject in the press, the Dreyfus Affair, and it was alone, or almost, that Dreyfus had to fight for his second sentence to be quashed and his innocence at last recognised. This « two-year war » ended in the triumph of the Republic over its opponents, nationalists and anti-Semites, at the price of appeasement: Dreyfus’s second trial and conviction at Rennes, his pardon and rehabilitation. Scheurer-Kestner’s conviction that Dreyfus’s was innocent, the denunciation of the true culprit, Marie Charles Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847-1923), by Alfred Dreyfus’s brother Mathieu Dreyfus (1857-1930), the first articles by Zola, including his famous open letter to President of the Republic Félix Faure, « J’accuse ! » published by Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) on 13 January 1898 in the daily newspaper L’Aurore, launched a movement that profoundly divided the French nation, split between two opposing and irreconcilable conceptions of France. Convinced of his innocence and shocked by a procedure and trial in which the law had been blatantly disregarded, Captain Dreyfus's few supporters were joined daily by new converts to his cause: several young writers, the senators Arthur Ranc (1831-1908) and Ludovic Trarieux (1840-1904), the member of parliament Joseph Reinach (1856-1921), the new head of counter-espionage, Lieutenant-Colonel Picquart (1854-1914), who discovered the name of the real traitor, the vice-president of the Senate, Auguste Scheurer-Kestner (1833-1899), the writer Émile Zola (1840-1902) to name but a few. In 1896, following a failed attempt to reopen the case by Dreyfus’s family and a young journalist, Bernard Lazare (1865-1903), the affair made history at the end of the following year. Saving the honour of the army and the foundering career of the Minister of War, General Auguste Mercier (1833-1921), and deep-rooted anti-Semitism, amplified by a virulent press relentlessly exploiting the affair, made Dreyfus the perfect culprit. Dreyfus was tried behind closed doors and sentenced instead of the true culprit, whom the high command had made no attempt to identify. Stripped of his rank, he was deported to Devil's Island, the penal colony in French Guiana.
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