A masterful director brings Dostoyevsky’s characters to life
For Lev Dodin, as for the author, Alyosha is the most important of “The Brothers Karamazov”
A SPOTLIGHT SEARCHES the dark stage of the Maly Drama Theatre in St Petersburg. It picks out a young man in a monk’s robe sitting on a chair, a suitcase on his lap. He rises, changes into secular clothes and steps towards a metal wall. The wall, in turn, moves towards the character; he passes through it, as if being X-rayed, and into the world of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s final novel, “The Brothers Karamazov”.
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