![]() ![]() Our professor from graduate school, Monika Greenleaf, had seen the play the day before. The world of Russian literature scholars is something of a select cabal, and we looked around for fellow professional acolytes. I am never very punctual on so little sleep, but we somehow made it, coffees in hand, by 9:45 as instructed, for the ferry that would take us to Governors Island. My friend Anne and I took our respective buses from Baltimore and Boston the night before, meeting at a friend’s apartment at 3 AM, having each packed a black dress and a copy of The Demons. The event of the year! And it was a fortuitous combination of two of my favorite things: Russian literature and the Italian language. The New York Times had touted The Demons as the theater event of the year. ![]() With contributions from Anne Eakin Moss The Demonsĭirected by Peter SteinPresented by the Lincoln Center Festival, 2010 What is the difference between a play and a novel? The question never bothered me before I saw Peter Stein’s production of Dostoevsky’s The Demons, a 12-hour Italian-language extravaganza. ![]()
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