Description

Everyone has an interest in making people believe that certain men are crazy, so that they can be locked up without remorse.<p> In the present day, in a remote castle, Donna Matilde, on the arm of Baron Belcredi, visits an old friend whom she has not seen for twenty years.<br><br> Twenty years during which this man believed himself to be Henry IV, not the king of France, but the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the sworn enemy of Pope Gregory VII, the penitent of Canossa.<br><br> Frozen in the 11th century at the heart of our time, he lives in his medieval bubble which servants, resident actors, maintain to preserve the illusion and serve his madness.<br><br> Pirandello blurs the line between play and truth: a madness that society judges, stages, but which also becomes a refuge, even a form of freedom.<br><br> This often comic drama brings back into the spotlight a forgotten author, revisited by the Moulin Bleu troupe under the direction of the talented Maxime Taffanel.</p>