Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot
Photo by Camyar Chai and Stephen Drover, Featuring Tom
Pickett, Kevin MacDonald and Kuei-min Ling
The Idiot
book club
Enjoy the book, discuss it with other readers, see our production and continue the discussion.
Adapted & Directed by James Fagan Tait
Original Music by Joelysa Pankanea
A Neworld Theatre Production in partnership with Vancouver Moving Theatre
Presented by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Theatre at UBC
Costume Designer: Mara Gottler • Set Designer: Bryan Pollock
Lighting Designer: Itai Erdal • Wardrobe Assistant: Sydney
Cavanagh • Technical Director: John Reilly: Production Manager
Rachel Peake • Stage Manager: Dorothy Jenkins Assistant Stage
Manager: Susan Miyagishima • Assistant Director: Chelsea
Haberlin • Downtown Eastside Manager: Terry Hunter •
Movement Consultant: Savannah Walling • Producer: Kirsty
Munro • Associate Producers: Terry Hunter, Savannah Walling
The Ensemble: David Adams, Patti Allan, Cherise Clarke, Kerry Davidson, Luke Day, Craig Erickson, Kevin MacDonald, Andrew McNee, Richard Newman, Kuei-Ming Lin, Stephen Lytton, Tom Pickett, Mike Richter, Savannah Walling, Adrienne Wong and introducing Theatre at UBC BFA-Acting students: Alen Dominguez, Alexander Keurvorst, Emma Middleton, Courtney Shields
Musicians: Joelysa Pankanea, Marimba | Mark Haney, Bass | Molly Mackinnon, Violin
Where: |
Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC |
When: |
January 20 to 28 @ 7:30 pm |
Tickets: |
universitytickets.com single advance Tickets $34 | $30 | $28 |
In a world obsessed with money, power, and sexual conquest, is a sanatorium the only place for a saint?
The award-winning team that brought you Crime and Punishment returns with a new adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s comic social critique, The Idiot, a world-premiere by writer/director James Fagan Tait and composer Joelysa Pankanea.
Scorned by the society of St. Petersburg for his generosity and innocence (his “idiocy”), Prince Myshkin finds himself at the centre of a struggle fueled by love, jealousy and greed.
