As authoritarianism resurges worldwide, Café Resistance brings a gripping new play that illuminates the bravery of the French Resistance during WWII. This powerful drama, interwoven with period music, unfolds in a fictional café-bordello in 1939 Paris, where the staff uses wit and creativity to resist Nazi occupation.

At the heart of the story is Louise, a dancer-turned-manager after the café’s shrewd owner, Marguerite, flees to her château at the outbreak of war. The establishment, now requisitioned for Nazi officers, becomes an unlikely battleground where its resourceful workers find ingenious ways to display their defiance and patriotism. Louise, concealing her Jewish identity, lives in constant peril. Her young son, Jacques, is hidden on a farm with a kind-hearted couple, but as the war intensifies, they are forced to flee. Meanwhile, her lover, a Resistance fighter known as DADA, arrives on the run from Nazi pursuers, and Louise must help him connect with fellow Resistance members to secure his escape. With her son’s safety at stake and danger closing in, Louise’s fight for survival becomes deeply personal, driving her to ever greater acts of courage.