Jacques le Fataliste

Come and hear the truth about love according to Jacques. Enjoy!

Jacques the Fatalist, after Denis Diderot

With Pierre Barayre, accompanied by Christophe Boucher, directed by Pascal Papini.

Jacques the Fatalist, a satirical novel that is modern in many ways, tells the adventures of the servant Jacques, convinced that everything that happens on earth is “already written up above”, and of his master.

The story, built on Jacques’s love affairs and on his master’s revenge on a gentleman who deceived him, raises through countless digressions the question of human freedom.

The main character, played by Pierre Barayre, is master of ceremonies, storyteller, actor and confidant all at once. Pascal Papini has devised for the actor a range of apt postures that he inhabits naturally one after another, bringing this enlightened, libertine dialogue to life. This “talker” addresses the audience, moving from questions to digressions that bring out the full modernity of Diderot’s thinking and the delight of words on libertinism and love.