Le Joueur d’Echecs at Théâtre du Nord-Ouest, Paris

Alexandre Durand and Patricia Margot direct, and Alexandre Durand performs. The play treats the game of chess as a means of survival. A member of the former Austrian aristocracy, who helped smuggle property and diplomatic documents out of Germany, is arrested and interrogated by the Nazis.

They use a diabolical method to break him psychologically and force him to give up the information they want. The play asks how he can manage to resist.