The Brothers Karamazov at Lookingglass Theatre Oct 15th

LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE CELEBRATES ITS
50TH WORLD PREMIERE WITH
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY ENSEMBLE MEMBER HEIDI STILLMAN

 
October 15- December 7, 2008
 
 
Lookingglass Theatre Company presents its 50th World Premiere with its production of the Lookingglass Original, The Brothers Karamazov, written and directed by Ensemble Member Heidi Stillman, adapted from the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The production runs October 15- December 7, 2008 at Lookingglass Theatre Company, located inside Chicago's historic Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave. at Pearson. The press opening is Saturday, October 25, 2008, at 7:30 p.m.
 
Fyodor Karamazov is one of literature’s most lecherous, greedy and delightfully despicable fathers. When his eldest son discovers he and his father are rivals for the affection of the same wayward woman, a storm of violence, betrayal and passion rains down on the Karamazov family and the world beyond. 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.
 
“The plot is a murder mystery revolving around the Karamazov brothers, all of whom are involved in some way in their father’s murder, though their involvement is not necessarily obvious or even literal,” explains director Heidi Stillman. “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.”
 
The Brothers Karamazov is the 50th World Premiere staged by Lookingglass Theatre Company in its 21- year history.  Lookingglass is the largest ensemble-based theater company in the U.S. that consistently creates work from within the company. The company has established itself on a national level for world premiere adaptations of new work, including notable World Premieres such as The Jungle, Hard Times, Metamorphoses, Race, The Shaggs, The Idiot, Argonautika, The Odyssey, The Arabian Nights, Lookingglass Alice, and Hephaestus...