with
Nicolas Bouchaud
Sylvain Creuzevault
Servane Ducorps
Vladislav Galard
Arthur Igual
Sava Lolov
Frédéric Noaille
Blanche Ripoche
Sylvain Sounier
et les musiciens
Sylvaine Hélary
Antonin Rayon
To quote Jean Genet, The Brothers Karamazov is above all « an enormous and petty buffoonery ». After his adaptation of Demons, director Sylvain Creuzevault carves out of its 1,300 pages the material for a devastating farce. Which of his sons killed the despicable Fyodor Karamazov: sensual Dimitri, his father's rival in love? Did Ivan the intellectual, obsessed with the problem of radical evil, really keep his hands clean? What about the virtuous, naive Alyosha – what role did he play? Explanations fall apart. Motives and characters give rise to all sorts of contradictions. In this « shooting gallery » of a novel, Genet concludes, all forms of tragic decorum are unravelling, « leaving nothing but lint in their wake. The fun begins... »
Cast
french translation André Markowicz
dramaturgy Julien Allavena
scenography Jean-Baptiste Bellon
light Vyara Stefanova
creation of music Sylvaine Hélary, Antonin Rayon
make-up Mytil Brimeur
masks Loïc Nébréda
costumes Gwendoline Bouget
sound Michaël Schaller
video 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, L’Union – centre dramatique national de Limoges, La Coursive – scène nationale de la Rochelle, Bonlieu scène nationale – Annecy
avec le soutien de l’Office artistique de la région Nouvelle-Aquitaine
avec le Festival d’Automne à Paris
la compagnie est soutenue par le ministère de la Culture/Direction générale de la création artistique Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Les Frères Karamazov, de Fédor Dostoïevski, traduction André Markowicz, est publié aux éditions Actes Sud, coll. Babel
Biography of Sylvain Creuzevault
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.
