Le Comte de Monte-Christo

In the organizer's words:

after Alexandre Dumas

This masterpiece of French literature is brought to the stage by the same team that created Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris and Dumas' The Three Musketeers!

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the most gripping and profound novels of all time. We follow the fate of Edmond Dantès, a seemingly fulfilled young man: from worldly success as a young ship's captain to romantic love with the beautiful Mercedes. But everything is snatched away from him by a jealous lover, a greedy banker and a corrupt judge. Edmond is imprisoned for fifteen long years. A dying prisoner reveals the secret of a great treasure, and Edmond stages one of the most famous escape attempts in all of literature. The riches are found on the island of Monte Cristo, where Dantès becomes Count. He exacts terrible revenge ...

But how do we feel about his cruelty as his furious revenge escalates? Is it an eye for an eye? Is Edmond Dantès the victim of his own vengefulness? The book and the play raise questions about justice and revenge as well as our own behavior in the face of adversity.