La voluntad de creer

In the transcript of the trial of Joan of Arc, when she is asked how she knew that it was the voice of Saint Michael that she heard, she answers: “Because he had the voice of an angel. How do you know it was an angel’s voice? Because I had the will to believe it”… What relationship is there between will and faith? What makes something credible? In our performance, the youngest of a family of Basque brothers maintains that he is Jesus of Nazareth. His sisters consider that he has gone mad from too much of Kierkegaard’s works. As in Ordet there will be death and resurrection. And above all the desire to play with the viewer’s perception so that the performance itself is a test of his faith.