LES JUSTES

Les Justes is a play by Albert Camus. It premiered in Paris in 1949, in the midst of an intellectual crisis at a time severely affected by World War II. Camus' script immerses the audience in the Russian revolution of 1905, focusing on the resistance of a group of revolutionaries who want to rise up against the tyranny of the tsar. The playwright speaks to us of ideals, of terror and those who perpetrate it and of the ‘justifications’ they give for doing so, showing the fine line between the most beautiful ideals and the most abhorrent acts.   The 611TEATRO company has adapted Camus' script, taking the notions, structure and characters and setting them in 1979 Madrid during the early days of Spanish democracy, when an ETA terrorist cell decides to attack a high-ranking government official. Everything seems to be proceeding as planned until some unexpected moral objections arise and thwart the entire plan. This triggers a deep ideological schism within the heart of the terrorist cell, and we get a look at the behaviour, ideas and attitudes that result in thirty years of terrorist violence.   Los Justos is a play about and against ETA. It is a fictitious take on historical events in our country, and a deliberation over why we have been living in the midst of terrorism for half a century and why, even today, there are still people who commit and justify terrorist acts.

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