In order to deconstruct Dumas’ romanticism, Castorf does not start from his melodrama. Instead, he explores the sardonic ambiguities of the original novel, which he combines with The Mission, by Heiner Müller – another great text on the prostitution and betrayal of one’s ideals. A third voice joins in : that of Georges Bataille, author of one of the most outrageously explicit erotic novellas of French literature : the well-named Story of the Eye.

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Faisant dialoguer sainteté et corruption, Cassiers et Lanoye composent le portrait d’une époque terrible et non sans rapport avec la nôtre. Un «spectacle admirable», une «grande création théâtrale» d’une «époustouflante maîtrise formelle» (Le Monde) qui a enflammé la Cour d’honneur au dernier Festival d’Avignon.
in Dutch, with overhead French titles

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