Le Grand Inquisiteur

[The Grand Inquisitor]

 

inspired by Fédor Dostoïevski

directed by Sylvain Creuzevault
associated artist

 

avec le Festival d'Automne à Paris


new production


estimated duration 1h30

Du 25 au 18 septembre 2020 2020

Odéon 6e

cast
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.