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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Stranger Suggests Today The Stranger Suggests

Posted by The Stranger on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM

Theater

Somehow, playwrights Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus managed to shorten Dostoyevsky's masterpiece (you know it's true: fuck The Brothers Karamazov) into a suspenseful 90-minute play, and the adaptation doesn't feel like anything has been omitted. It's film noir taken to its seedy extremes: Galen Joseph Osier's greasy, guilt-ridden Raskolnikov is basically a poor grad student who starts to believe he has power over life and death. Can the bumbling Detective Porfiry crack the case—and save Raskolnikov from himself—before it's too late? You'll leave the theater wishing the play had been twice as long. (Intiman Theater, 201 Mercer St, 269-1900. 2 pm, $10–$42.)

PAUL CONSTANT

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Paul - Wow. "Fuck the Brothers Karamazov." I don't know what to say. You are not who I thought you were. Goodbye.

Posted by Jude Fawley on April 19, 2009 at 11:16 AM

Aaaaaand cue snot in 3.. 2.. 1..

Posted by yech on April 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM

Constant still adheres to his ideas, but we all know the kiss still glows in his heart.

Posted by Brother K on April 19, 2009 at 11:32 AM

The Idiot is Dostojewski's true masterpiece.

Posted by facet on April 19, 2009 at 12:38 PM

You liked this adaptation? I had to exit 20 minutes into the performance. The actors were too melodramatic in their motions and the Russian accents fluctuated wildly. I'd hate to think what these playwrights would do to Beckett.

Posted by James on April 19, 2009 at 12:51 PM

Um, the actors aren't using accents.

Posted by Khaidee on April 19, 2009 at 3:01 PM

Hey Jude @1: I'm not saying The Brothers Karamazov is bad. i'm saying it's not Dostoevsky's masterpiece. It would be any other author's masterpiece, but Doestoevsky also wrote Crime and Punishment, which is almost certainly one of the three best books ever written.

Posted by Paul Constant on April 19, 2009 at 4:19 PM

@7 Okay, I forgive you. C&P is perhaps technically perfect as a novel, but Brothers Karamazov is an insane masterpiece, which is more my style.

Posted by Jude Fawley on April 19, 2009 at 5:03 PM

constant is a virgin

Posted by W Coper on April 19, 2009 at 6:57 PM