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

Put two Russian kids together and you’re bound to wind up in metaphysics, says Ivan, the tortured intellectual, to his brother Alyosha, the unquiet novice. After listing a few grim facts lifted from the crime section, Ivan delivers a prose poem of his about Jesus coming back to life during the Spanish Inquisition, only to be threatened to be burned at the stake. According to the Grand Inquisitor, mankind isn't strong enough to bear Jesus’ gift of freedom to believe in « Him » rather than in earthly values, for such freedom implies the possibility of evil… This « most anarchist and revolutionary work ever written » (Berdiaev) invites us to « unmask » the great deceiver « wherever he is » - which is precisely what Creuzevault and his team intend to do.

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.