The Orwellians

Peter Sturm - Staging Dostoevsky in London


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Playwright and director Peter Sturm discusses his London-based production of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Dream of a Ridiculous Man," which is performed by actor Tom Larkin.

The genre-bending story, which has aspects of gothic horror, science fiction, and religious parable, first appeared in Dostoevsky's "A Writer's Diary" in 1877, alongside some of the writer's most nationalistic essays. But can Dostoevsky's unreliable narrator's message of universal love be interpreted as "an antidote to war"?

More info about the production:

splitmoontheatre.org

tomlarkinproductions.co.uk

Roland Elliott Brown is the author of Godless Utopia: Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda with FUEL Publishing. He has written for New Lines, The Critic, The Spectator, The Guardian, and Foreign Policy, among other publications.

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The OrwelliansBy Roland Elliott Brown