Betrayal, jealousy, lies, manipulation, impossible love… these are the themes of Dumas’ novel that the director Gérald Dumont (Notre-Dame de Paris, Cyrano de Bergerac) chose to approach. In the theatre scenes the curtain opens and closes on the tragic events of the characters, raising the veil of their destiny, as the set design echoes the adventures, the journeys in the Orient, the tempests and, especially, the intensified feelings of the protagonists. Set in an unstable nineteenth century, this obscure story leads the audience into the heart of human tragedy with complicit tracks, sometimes dramatic, other times romantic or struggling, that accompany the show from the beginning to the end. The characterisation of the characters, as always well marked, is possible thanks to the interpretative style adopted by the actors, very physical and expressive, that make all the dialogues clear and comprehensible. The protagonists of the story and their social identity are easily recognisable thanks to the different styles and to the chromatic tones of the costumes: inspired by an epoch yet with a style that has modern elements, and respecting the intense atmosphere of the novel by Dumas yet at the same time appealing to the sensitivity of the audience with regard to the performance.