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Jan Fabre, Prometheus... Insufficient means...

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When the creative minimum highlights the misery of the big money

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Prometheus-Landscape II at the Théâtre de la Ville

After a very promising opening text and performance by a magnificent and straightforward actress, asking the questions essential to the safeguarding of our humanity: "where is this hero who will save us, who is he, how do we want him?", the answers that follow the opening curtain are more than disappointing.

The unbridled hullabaloo that is eternally seen, the big strings (in the centre of the stage, by the way) of the contemporary who has been content with little since he understood that everything was allowed and that the public was complacently delighted with good jokes. The derisory is thus supposed to contrast with sumptuous means.

There will never be enough scenic means to fill in the gaps in a story

Here, too little is allowed in relation to the freedom, means, time and place available.

Cheapness from a certainly very good artist who didn't bother enough. Too little demand from the institutions that pay at the source; perversion of a system we already know.

So obviously, it's probably better than a lot of the stuff you see on the prestige stages, but it's not enough. Of course, it's certainly going to be a hit at the upcoming In, but who cares?

A most childish image of chaos, which would almost insult the imagination of heroic fantasy authors and the best video games.

We've seen this tortured and muscular Prometheus a hundred times and we expect more subtlety than a silly linear narrative to follow the stimulating introduction. As Godard is said to have said at the release of Titanic, "not enough means" for the sumptuousness and tragedy it seeks to describe.

If you're in the big machine, you have to be more generous in terms of the wealth of ideas. This will satisfy the less demanding and, unfortunately, many others who know how to see, but have sadly given up asking for more because of the prevailing stagnation, in order to rally to the cause of the minimum creative union better than nothing, right?

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