{"id":444,"date":"2024-10-07T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lafemmecoupeeendeux.fr\/spectacles\/the-response-of-men\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:32:56","slug":"the-response-of-men","status":"publish","type":"spectacles","link":"https:\/\/lafemmecoupeeendeux.fr\/en\/spectacles\/the-response-of-men\/","title":{"rendered":"The response of Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Have you ever kept a secret knowing that it would betray a friend? Where then do yourloyalties lie? Which friend do you betray?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

On a daily basis, we are all subject to moral disorientation of minor or magnitudinalsignificance. The desire to be just, the desire to do good, remain perennial questions for Ethics.<\/p>\n\n

My next show concerns Morality but also the nature of Goodness. Last year, while watchingThe Decalogue, directed by Kieslowski, I became aware of the Works of Mercy, described inthe Gospel of St. Matthew. The works, an inverted mirror of the Decalogue, are all positiverules that a Christian must follow if they wish to redeem their faults.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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My next show concerns Morality but also the nature of Goodness. Last year, while watchingThe Decalogue, directed by Kieslowski, I became aware of the Works of Mercy, described inthe Gospel of St. Matthew. The works, an inverted mirror of the Decalogue, are all positiverules that a Christian must follow if they wish to redeem their faults.There are fifteen works of mercy; to feed the hungry; to give water to the thirsty; to clothethe naked; to shelter strangers; to assist the sick; to visit the imprisoned; to bury the dead, toinstruct the ignorant, to safeguard creation, etc. \n \nFifteen works are presented as fifteen titles, fifteen commissions, fifteen chapters.I must first go through the works of mercy to question what it is they command. I must firstgo through fiction to question the moral dilemmas and concerns, ancient or contemporary,that continue to occupy us.This is one way of examining, as Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Leichter-Flack described, “the interface, inperpetual movement, between the just and the unjust”.<\/p>\n\n

Tiphaine Raffier – October 2019<\/p>\n\n

\u00a9 photo<\/em> : Simon Gosselin<\/p>\n\n

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