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...Flying Karamazov Brothers. ThroughJan. 2. Experience the fun, hilarity, andastonishing dexterity of these master jugglers andvaudevillians in a show for the entire family.$18-$30. Cambridge Theatre Company at the HastyPudding Theatre, 8 p.m. 496-8400.8 December Wednesday
Sullivan's next Seattle venture is an adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov just as insouciant as Inspecting Carol. "It won't retain much of the plot," he says, "because it will star a juggling troupe, the Flying Karamazov Brothers." After this, his 12th season, Sullivan will take a year's sabbatical to do some writing and, if the project comes off, direct a long- planned film of Rappaport. But he will stay involved with fund raising for a new 300-seat second stage in Seattle and will definitely return. Says he: "I've never not been part of a group...
Many writers have said that one of evil's higher accomplishments has been to convince people that it does not exist. Ivan Karamazov's bitter diabology was a bit different: "If the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness." In a nightmare, Ivan meets the devil, a character of oddly shabby gentility, who mentions how cold it was in space, from which he lately came, traveling in only an evening suit and open waistcoat. The devil speaks of the game of village girls who persuade someone to lick...
...elevated to the status of the inexplicable. To understand is to forgive. Evil sometimes means the thing we cannot understand, and cannot forgive. The Steinberg case in New York City, in which a lawyer battered his six-year-old foster daughter Lisa to death, is an example. Ivan Karamazov speaks of a Russian nobleman who had his hounds tear an eight-year-old boy to pieces in front of the boy's mother because he threw a stone at one of the dogs. Karamazov asks the bitter question that is at the heart of the mystery of evil, "What have...
Director Robert Woodruff shares the staging credit with his performers, notably the Flying Karamazov Brothers, a quintet of juggling comics who play the servants, the masters and Shakespeare himself, looking on in mounting disbelief. Nobody here is precisely acting, but Karla Burns as a lovestruck maid, Randy Nelson as a sly servant, Howard Jay Patterson as one of the masters and Sophie Hayden as his wife all appear to have -- and give -- a roaring good time. -- W.A.H...