{"id":68441,"date":"2007-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/01\/23\/lincrevable-tony-blair-en-pieces\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T00:00:00","slug":"lincrevable-tony-blair-en-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/01\/23\/lincrevable-tony-blair-en-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"L’increvable Tony Blair en pi\u00e8ces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Au moins deux pi\u00e8ces de th\u00e9\u00e2tre \u00e0 Londres ont pris ou vont prendre comme sujet une fiction autour du sort du Premier ministre, avec comme th\u00e8me un Tony Blair en proc\u00e8s : The Trial of Tony Blairq<\/em>, de Alistair Beaton, et The Indictment of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair for the Crime of Aggression Against IraqA Hearing<\/em> (la seconde est un montage qui sera r\u00e9alis\u00e9 \u00e0 partir d’un vrai proc\u00e8s fictif).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe site WSWS.org<\/a> s’int\u00e9resse \u00e0 cet aspect original du monde du th\u00e9\u00e2tre \u00e0 Londres, en exer\u00e7ant son sens critique habituel tremp\u00e9 aux couleurs de ses engagements politiques.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAmbiance :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abAt one point in Alistair Beaton’s latest political satire, The Trial of Tony Blair, Cherie Blair (Phoebe Nicholls) rounds on husband Tony (Robert Lindsay) saying, The world’s changed and you don’t get it. Where Beaton falls down is in his depiction of how this change manifests itself and leads to Blair standing in the dock facing war crimes charges.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbIt is 2010. Blair, having stayed in office longer than promised, has finally stepped down before the general election. His last days in office take place as the US and Israel target Iranian nuclear facilities.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbChancellor Gordon Brown finally gets his chance at the head of both the Labour Party and the government, but he is left facing the massive disaffection left from the Blair years. The film shows an upsurge in Labour support after Blair’s departure, but Brown being reelected as prime minister with his majority reduced to just two seats. Hillary Clinton, the new president of the United States, is attempting to deal with popular hostility to the Iraq war and the foreign policy of George W. Bush, who we are told is back in rehab.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbTrying to distance themselves from their predecessors, neither new head of state uses his or her veto at the United Nations to prevent the setting up of a Tribunal on War Crimes in Iraq as part of the International Criminal Court at The Hague. Blair, who unlike the US had supported the ICC when it was founded, is extradited to face trial as a war criminal.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe programme was first aired on one of Channel 4’s digital channels, and repeated shortly afterwards on the terrestrial channel.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe significance of a mainstream channel producing a programme depicting the incumbent prime minister as a war criminal should not be underestimated. And it should be noted that The Trial of Tony Blair has been produced by figures once close to the Labour leadershipBeaton was for a time a speechwriter for Gordon Brown.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbThe programme-makers (writer Beaton, executive producer David Aukin, and director Simon Cellan Jones) developed it as a satire. But its central contention would not be shocking to the majority of people in Britain. Nor is it the only such piece in production. North London’s Tricycle Theatre is calling legal teams and witnesses to argue whether there is a case for trying Blair as a war criminal. They will then produce a condensed version of events entitled The Indictment of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair for the Crime of Aggression Against IraqA Hearing.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAujourd’hui, Tony Blair est devenu un symbole et un monument \u00e0 la fois, voire une habitude dont il sera difficile de se passer. C’est surtout un tribut rendu \u00e0 une opini\u00e2tret\u00e9 terriblement britannique. Sa force et sa pusillanimit\u00e9 pour s’accrocher au pouvoir sont admirables et la raison qui le pousse \u00e0 cet ent\u00eatement pour une position qui accro\u00eet chaque jour son discr\u00e9dit en mettant en \u00e9vidence l’imposture de sa direction et de ces d\u00e9cisions est un myst\u00e8re consid\u00e9rable. Depuis 2004-2005, le maintien de Tony Blair au pouvoir est certes un scandale pour les affaires publiques, mais c’est surtout une sottise consid\u00e9rable pour l’homme. Ses turpitudes sont chaque jour un peu plus mises en \u00e9vidence, la rancune et le m\u00e9pris du public grandissent, son image (chose qui lui importe tant) ne cesse de s’assombrir. Si l’on y ajoute le spectacle ridicule de Blair empress\u00e9 aupr\u00e8s de GW Bush, le myst\u00e8re devient d\u00e9finitivement incompr\u00e9hensible. Tony Blair a-t-il d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de boire le calice de sa caricature jusqu’\u00e0 la lie?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl para\u00eet que les appels pour qu’il fixe enfin la date de son d\u00e9part<\/a> s’amplifient \u00e0 nouveau (on a d\u00e9j\u00e0 connu le cas plusieurs fois). Peut-\u00eatre. Mais cet homme repr\u00e9sente un cas unique, qu’il faudra observer comme tel, d’une vie d\u00e9finitivement ancr\u00e9e dans un univers ext\u00e9rieur au monde, d’un pouvoir compl\u00e8tement exerc\u00e9 en dehors des r\u00e9alit\u00e9s du monde, d’une psychologie absolument subvertie par une repr\u00e9sentation virtualiste de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 du monde. Qu’il termine sa carri\u00e8re politique \u00e0 moins qu’il ne se ravise avec son histoire politique mont\u00e9e de th\u00e9\u00e2tre londonien en th\u00e9\u00e2tre londonien ne peut nous surprendre. Tony Blair est vraiment un homme de son temps, une r\u00e9f\u00e9rence extraordinaire. Il n’est pas s\u00fbr qu’il ne nous manquera pas lorsqu’il sera parti. (A moins qu’il ne d\u00e9cide de rester.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 23 janvier 2007 \u00e0 22H42<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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