with Sylvain Creuzevault, Servane Ducorps, Vladislav Galard, Arthur Igual, Sava Lolov, Frédéric Noaille, Patrick Pineau alternating with Nicolas Bouchaud, Blanche Ripoche, Sylvain Sounier 
and the musicians Sylvaine Hélary, Antonin Rayon

In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky tells the story of a contemptible, absent father whose four sons — including one who is illegitimate — more or less openly dream of killing him. One day he is murdered. But who is guilty? Sylvain Creuzevault adapts the novel, in which tragedy goes side by side with grotesqueness, and metaphysics with filth, to create a rich, playful and jubilant show. In this revival from last season, the cast, supported by two improvisational musicians, delivers a performance in which the audience is impressed by its rhythm and sense of urgency, as well as the actor’s physical expression.

Cast

french translation André Markowicz
dramaturgy Julien Allavena
set design Jean-Baptiste Bellon
light Vyara Stefanova
music by Sylvaine Hélary, Antonin Rayon
make-up Mityl Brimeur
masks Loïc Nébréda
costumes Gwendoline Bouget
sound Michaël Schaller
video, accessories Valentin Dabbadie

production Le Singe


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

 

with the support of the Office artistique de la région Nouvelle-Aquitaine

 

with the Festival d’Automne à Paris 

 

 

la compagnie Le Singe is supported by the ministère de la culture / direction régionale des affaires culturelles Nouvelle-Aquitaine

 

Les Frères Karamazov, by Fédor Dostoïevski, in the French translation by André Markowicz, is published at éditions Actes Sud, coll. Babel

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.