Imbecile or saint ? Oblivious or lucid ? Naïve or brilliant ? The character of Prince Myshkin has often left the page of the novel to tread the boards, like many of Dostoyevski's heroes, because of their richness. In France the range of interpretations of Myshkin is great, from Philippe Avron directed by André Barsacq in 1956 to Philippe Demarle directed by Joël Jouanneau in 1988, without forgetting Gérard Philipe in a Georges Lampin film in 1945. Myshkin's distinctive mark is his ambiguity and his ambivalence. He represents goodness but also failure. How can one love a woman and at the same time claim to love the whole of humanity ? The Christic message is confronted with reality - and with an array of characters with romantic and sensual needs. Evil wins and madness takes over .At 30, Grzegorz Jazyna is one of Poland's most brilliant and youngest artists. He was assisted by Krystian Lupa. He perceives in Prince Myshkin echoes of eastern European society today. Brutally transformed by liberalism and capitalism, Myshkin drives out and renders greed blameworthy. At the same time, like the Janus-faced Myshkin, man has never been so two-faced. What is goodness in a world of exacerbated duality ? The show, where music and video are as integral as the acting, is based on the human being 's duality and on the double nature of emotion - basic and refined.
Distribution
stage direction Grzegorz Jarzyna (Mikolaj Warianow)
cast : Stanislawa Celinska, Magdalena Cielecka, Witold Debicki, Zbigniew Kaleta, Marek Kalita, Alexandra Konieczna, Cezary Kosinski, Maria Maj, Waldemar Obloza, Jacek Pawlowicz, Aleksandra Poplawska, Robert Wieckiewicz, Miroslaw Zbrojewicz
set designers : Magdalena Maciejewska and Sylwia Torch
assisted by : Wojciech Stefaniak
Costume : Designer Magdalena Maciejewska
original score : by Pawel Mykietyn
musical adaptation : Piotr Dominski and Horst d'Albertis
video animation : Piotr Dumula
Production
Le programme " de la Baltique aux Balkans " est réalisé avec l'aide de : THEOREM, du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, de la Mission pour la Célébration de l'An 2000 en France, de l'Association française d'Action artistique-ministère des Affaires étrangères et de la Commission européenne
Production : Teatr Rozmaito´sci
avec l'aide : du ministère polonais de la Culture
avec le soutien de : THEOREM et de l'ONDA pour les surtitres