![]() ![]() ![]() But the mindful spectator will find subtle dramaturgical clues throughout… They forcefully hold up the mirror of our contemporary reality, its media lynchings, rigged social networks, and the innocent ones that popular vindictiveness throws to the wolves.īut as the story unfolds on stage you begin to wonder: is this really happening? Do Dantès and Faria really share a prison cell and plot an escape plan for the young sailor, who then gets even with the establishment? Or does this prison just exist in the imagination of a man in solitary confinement, talking to himself as if there was someone else in his cell? The story is intentionally left open to interpretation. But personal justice is never free of collateral victims, and the consequences will be tragic for the Count of Monte Cristo. While his initial debates with Faria are still rooted in intelligence and education, we witness him gradually wading deeper and deeper into fantasies devoid of all reason, just driven by the burning desire of revenge for the wrong he suffered. ![]() Crushed by a legal machine against which he is powerless, Edmond Dantes plots his escape, and a Machiavellian revenge plan unfolds before our eyes. Outside his 19th century literary context, C8’s modern-day Monte Cristo is less on a quest for revenge and self-delivery than he is trying to rid himself from certain political and social patterns that are still relevant: corrupt bankers, lawmakers, military, and speculators, and all their intrigues to bid for power in a flawed judicial system that is far from blind.Įmprisoned, Edmond Dantès and Abbot Faria ponder their future. Now rich and powerful, Dantes poses as the Count of Monte Cristo and sets out to take revenge on those who have wrongly accused him. Quick recap of the original story: A victim of slander, Edmond Dantes spends fourteen years languishing in a prison in the Château d’If in the heart of the Marseilles harbour before escaping and seizing a hidden treasure that this cell mate, Abbot Faria, has revealed to him. The play, as timeless and fluid as any of the company’s works, is currently scheduled at Anthéa in Antibes through 22 January 2022. What solutions do they have at their fingertips to flee from their invisible prison and get even with a cruel fate?Ĭollectif 8, one of the region’s premier companies, seeks to find the answer in its interpretation of the 19th century classic Le Conte de Monte-Cristo, taking a contemporary and surprising look at Alexandre Dumas’ epic work. Dantès is a metaphor… the aggregate of all ambitious and hardworking people in the world, sorely let down by their governments, and stopped in their tracks by ever-increasing political pressure. Edmond Dantès, a young former first mate on a ship who bravely stepped into the role of captain when that one died, is betrayed by a jealous “ friend” and falsely incarcerated, but manages to escape against the odds many years later. The year is 1815, despotic emperor Napoléon reigns supreme in France. The Anthéa house company, renowned for its creativity and ingenuity at the crossroads of stage theatre and cinema, gives Alexandre Dumas’ classic a shocking, and shockingly good, makeover
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