The Brothers Karamazov

Written and directed by Heidi Stillman

Adapted from the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

With Maury Cooper, Charon Cross, Nick Dileonardi, Abigail Droeger, Robert Gerdisch, Larry Grimm,
Malcolm Kenneth Harris, Steve Key, Ruby Keutzer, Marianna Oharenko, Joe Sikora, and Craig Spidle. 

A Lookingglass Original

This World Premiere adaptation sweeps back to 19th century Russia— to snowy Troika rides and balalaika gypsy music, to drunken duels and carousing with cognac. Russian patriarch Fyodor Karamazov is one of literature’s most lecherous, greedy and delightfully despicable fathers. When his eldest son discovers they are competing for the affections of the same woman, concealed tensions erupt into a storm of passion, deceit and betrayal. Ensemble member and Lookingglass Artistic Director of New Work Heidi Stillman, award-winning adaptor and director of Charles Dickens' Hard Times, brings new life to Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece of murder, greed and treachery.

Heidi Stillman on The Brothers Karamazov
“The plot is a murder mystery but the ideas swirling around and within the plot have to do with the existence of God, the meaning of life, the broadness and contradictions in human nature, and the interconnectedness of humanity – that we are ‘all responsible for all’ – in other words, kind of all the biggest, deepest life questions.”

Tickets

On sale to subscribers: August 19, 2008
On sale to the public: September 2, 2008

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