Word: dostoyevski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN EMILY MANN'S PRODUCTION of Robert Montgomery's Subject to Fits becomes good theater, and good art, the Loeb stage is set spinning with the whirl of a dance of living death. All of the characters in this "response to Dostoyevski's The Idiot" are trapped in individual hells, and in the bigger hell of the universe, and when they are forced to test their limits and laugh at them, human strength has a chance to win a sane survival. In morbid party games, in psychic tortures gleefully inflicted and returned, Mann's and Montgomery's cast of depraved...