With guidance from teacher and friend Sir Leigh Teabing, Langdon and Neveu embark on a breathless race through the streets of Europe. Follow the pulse-racing journey as Professor Robert Langdon, played by Television favourite Nigel Harman (EastEnders, Hotel Babylon) and fellow cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Hannah Rose Caton) attempt to solve the riddles, leading to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci and beyond, deep into the vault of history. The curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered, and alongside his body are a series of baffling codes. The blockbuster story that captivated the world is now an epic stage thriller. So long as a broken humanity stands in need of spiritual healing, the quest for the Grail will continue.Tue 28 Jun - Sat 2 July 2022 SHOW INFORMATION
For Langdon, the journey has been at least as important, if not more so, than the destination.
No knight wants to abandon a quest without having fulfilled it, after all-whether ancient Grail-seekers or modern novel readers! And Langdon’s simple act of reverence, rather than some public revelation of the truth of the Grail, actually emphasizes and reinforces Marie’s conviction regarding the Grail’s true nature. “She rests at last beneath the starry skies”-Langdon looks up through the glass pyramid at night, sees the stars, and falls to his knees in homage to the Sangreal.Īnalysis: While it might be argued that the novel’s epilogue undercuts to some extent Marie Chauvel’s statements on both the importance of keeping the Sangreal’s location a secret and its overriding significance as a symbol of an ongoing quest for wholeness, this brief scene in Paris, where Langdon at last finds himself in the actual resting place of Mary Magdalene and the Grail documents, does provide readers with a certain amount of emotional closure and satisfaction. “Adorned in masters’ loving art, She lies”-the Louvre being the home of the art of so many Priory Grandmasters, Da Vinci not least among them.
“The blade and chalice guarding o’er Her gates”-the miniature pyramid inside the larger one. Line by line, Langdon reflects on Saunière’s final message: “The Holy Grail ‘neath ancient Roslin waits”-a reference to the earth’s original prime meridian, which ran though Paris. Summary: Back in Paris, Langdon returns to the Louvre, with its infamous glass pyramid entrance.
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