“It happened as it always happens in dreams, when you leap over space and time and the laws of nature and reason, stopping only on those points which cause your heart to dream.” ~F. Dostoevskii
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Dream of a Ridiculous Man, explores the underground psychology of Feodor Dostoevskii and his fantastical world of religious mysteries, suicides, love triangles, murderers, and holy fools.
Three people afflicted with emotional and spiritual anguish find themselves caught in a Dostoevskian dark night, on the threshold between sanity and madness, reality and fantasy. Theirs is a life a trois that revolves around a murder and its repercussions–fractured, kaleidoscopic. But can the events of this vision be taken for reality, delusion, or diabolically inspired hallucination?
Fragments of Dostoevskii’s texts intertwined with Russian liturgical and folk songs rendered in saturated harmonies–confronting the confluences of sanity and madness, wisdom and foolishness, spirit and flesh, self and other that imbue every page of this great writer’s work–revealing our own Dostoevskian impulses reverberating with echoes of Witkiewicz and Artaud.
APL was honored to have Dream of a Ridiculous Man selected to be remounted and showcased in conjunction with the 2005 Theatre Communications Group Annual Conference.
CONCEPT, ADAPTATION, DIRECTION: Joseph Lavy
MUSIC DIRECTOR: Zhenya Lavy
ENSEMBLE:
- Joseph Lavy (Dreamer)
- Eric Mayer-Garcia (Prince)
- Zhenya Lavy (Madwoman)
STAGE MANAGER: Carine Boekee
SET PIECES: Steven Hirt
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Zhenya Lavy
PHOTOGRAPHY: M. Scott Brauer (b/w), Mariana Markova (color)
VIDEOGRAPHY: Joshua Polster & Scott Maddock
VENUES:
- The Chamber Theatre, 4th floor of the Oddfellows Building, Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood (2004)
- Theatre4, The Armory at the Seattle Center (2005)
