Plato and his “Republic”, the theatrical hit of autumn in Geneva

The smartest show of the fall. Also the most stimulating. The director José Lillo offers himself a giant, a wise man who crosses the ages, a troublemaker of thinking flush with the screens: Plato himself and his Republic, multi-storey monument where a dream city rises. In Geneva, in a crowded Pitoëff Theater, in front of classes of upset and interested teenagers, actors experienced in maieutics joust. In their mouths, the foundations of a society, the notion of good, the search for a political system that respects all the components of a community. Everything is posed, contested, redefined: pure pleasure of what is never self-evident.