The world of the Yepansin family will never be the same again, everything changes with the Prince’s return. Aglaya and Nastasya, both true beauties, both terminally ill and mortally dangerous, follow Prince in an ecstatic dance. Rogozhin, deadly in love with Nastasya, is ready to kill the Prince, but not only him. Lébedyev, the roguish drunkard, who studies the Apocalypse, together with the greedy Ganya are shaking the world, each in their own way. Little Hippolyte, a walking dead, not being able to look the Holy Madman in the eye, wants to take his own life in a spectacular way.
“St. Idiot” is the title of the book by the philosopher Cezary Wodziński which he wrote in 2000. It is also the title of Janusz Opryński’s play, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot”. Cezary Wodziński wrote a book about a Russian Holy Madman, the “yurodivy”, a maniac, lunatic, fool who deliberately put on a mask of madness to hide their wisdom behind it. As a homage to Cezary Wodziński, Opryński decided to call his adaptation “St. Idiot”. Dostoyevsky, it seems to like the Russian yurodivys and we find the characteristics of these sacred hooligans in many of his protagonists.
Runtime: 180 mins with one intermission
Suitable for viewers aged 16 and over.
The event is part of the 23rd Theatre Confrontations Festival >>>