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...liberal arts education. Upon developing the critical tools of a discipline, students will be well-equipped to further examine any of its topics. The notion of an "approach to knowledge" must be distinguished from knowledge as such. The question is not merely "What is the theme of The Brothers Karamazov?" but "How does literature function?" and "How are literary genres constituted and transformed?" Beyond a comprehension of the historical events that comprised the French Revolution, students in Historical Studies B-35: "The French Revolution: Causes, Processes, and Consequences" leave with an understanding of the interactions that shape events...
...novel and, by my calculations, had not read a total of 356,000 pages. Twenty years later, I happened to pass the winner on the street, and the poor fellow still had a haunted look, as if even at that stage a couple of hundred pages of The Brothers Karamazov lay between him and peace of mind...
...title of Durang's latest work, a perversion (in both senses of the word) of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, seems almost chosen at random from the list of novels that it references. The basic plot of Dostoevsky's famous meditation on being and nothingness (long before Sartre took the patent out on those themes) serves as the starting point of the Durang/Innaurato collaboration: four brothers, tempestuous love, life, death, etc, etc. But it doesn't take long to leave Dostoevsky in the dust as Durang and Innaurato jump full force into the whole of literature since the Book...
...Hemingway who acts as Garnett's servant, the under-recognized and frustrated feminist author Djuna Barnes, the heroine-addicted mother of Eugene O'Neil, and the aforementioned Anas Nin, played with delightfully French self-absorption by Karen MacDonald. Not to mention the entire cast of characters from The Brothers Karamazov, with Alyosha Karamazov (played with effective, i.e. not annoying, wholesomeness by Sean Dugan) serving as Durang's Everyman character in this absurdist romp...
Director Karin Coonrod must be given credit for taming this tornado of a play. Performed as part of the A.R.T.'s CrossCurrents initiative, an ongoing attempt to "create and sustain a body of new music theatre works," The Idiots Karamazov intersperses cabaret-style singing with its mad dash through practically all the Western fiction and drama worth reading. But an experiment in Brechtian musical theater this is not. With love ballads about the loss of Christian morality that come across as even more depressing than Tom Stoppard's musings in Jumpers and show-stoppers about the benefits of being...