Read the Volokonsky/Pevear translations (or even Constance Garnett's translation of The Brothers Karamazov). At least it's understandable that The Brothers Karamazov is reduced to a simpleton's detective story - but this play is unforgivable. You can't translate Dostoevsky's writing to plot points. Nicholai’s darkest secrets are revealed, and Lisa’s reputation is hanging by a thread as the factories are being burned to the ground in a town on the brink of revolution. Jonathan Forbes, Cecilia Appiah, Gary Lilburn and Joseph Arkley star in Dostoevsky’s unsettling tale of revolution and betrayal. After years away from home, Nicholai Stavrogin returns to his old home town bringing with him the radical ‘free-thinkers’ of Petersburg, hell-bent on causing civil unrest. Gary Lilburn, Jane Whittenshaw, Georgia Henshaw and Jonathan Forbes star in Dostoevsky’s unsettling tale of revolution and betrayal. Gary Lilburn and Jonathan Forbes star in Melissa Murray's new dramatisation.
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