Fraternité

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A selected work of the CJ Cultural Foundation’s original musical support program, this two-hander is set during the French Revolution and unfolds over 100 minutes with only two actors commanding the stage in an intense psychological battle.
The story begins as Gervais, once a comrade of the revolution, points a gun at his former mentor, Victor. A bourgeois lawyer, Victor had used the street boy Gervais as a symbol of the revolution to serve his own political ideals. Having learned republicanism from Victor, Gervais gradually realizes he has been used as a mere tool and leaves Victor to change the world in his own way.
“Fraternité” is a work that reexamines the violence and hypocrisy hidden behind the word “together,” exploring the true value of fraternity (fraternité). Through the intense conflict and transformation of two characters who navigate the boundary between selfishness and selflessness, it asks whether sacrificing the individual for the greater good is justifiable, and whether putting others before oneself is truly the right thing to do.