cast
Nicolas Bouchaud
Sylvain Creuzevault
Servane Ducorps
Vladislav Galard
Arthur Igual
Sava Lolov
Frédéric Noaille
Blanche Ripoche
Sylvain Sounier

 

musicians
Sylvaine Hélary
Antonin Rayon

Jean Genet once remarked that The Brothers Karamazov is above all « an enormous, petty buffoonery ». Creuzevault dives into the 1300-page monster of a novel and emerges with the material for a devastating farce. Which of his sons killed the infamous Fyodor Karamazov ?Dimitri, the sensual one, his father's rival in love? Did Ivan, the tormented intellectual, really have nothing to do with it ? And what about the saintly, naive Alyosha – what role did he play ? Explanations destroy each other, as motives and characters fall prey to contradictions of all kinds. In this « shooting gallery, » notes Genet, where dignity and tragic seriousness are undermined, everything ends up « blown to ribbons. The exultation begins »...

Cast

production Le Singe
coproduction Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, Festival d’Automne à Paris, L’empreinte – scène nationale Brive-Tulle, Théâtre des Treize vents – centre dramatique national de Montpellier, La Coursive – scène nationale de la Rochelle, Bonlieu scène nationale – Annecy

Director

Sylvain Creuzevault began directing in 2003, with the group d'ores et déjà, of which he is a co-founder. He made a name for himself in 2009 with Notre terreur at La Colline, a play about the Comité de salut public in 1793. This was followed by two shows on Marx (Le Capital et son Singe in 2014, Banquet Capital in 2018) and in 2016 Angelus Novus AntiFaust. 


Associate artist at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe since 2016 with his company Le Singe, he is devoting a cycle to Dostoyevsky, creating The Demons, The Grand Inquisitor and The Brothers Karamazov from 2018 to 2021. In 2023, he creates Edelweiss [France Fascisme], the counterpart to Peter Weiss's L'Esthétique de la résistance, presented a few months earlier at the Théâtre national de Strasbourg.