Notes from Underground: a disgusting play February 15, 2008

Descend into the squalid, candlelit dwelling of Dostoevsky’s Underground Man. Sit on his broken furniture and battered books. Experience his wretched loneliness. Feel his penetrating anguish. Fear his outbursts of manic rage. Voices from the auditorium ring out, belittling and degrading the man. Are the voices his? Are they yours? Hear the Underground Man address you, a command audience of his imagination, assembled to ridicule and debase him in an intricate call-and-response ritual he practices nightly. And witness him delight in his own pain.

Notes from Underground is a five-part dramatic oratorio exploring the Underground Man's desperate masochism. Four actors voice both the character’s inner critics and participants in his story. Robert Honeywell, performing Dostoyevsky’s legendary anti-hero, returns their fire. Each line is timed to a complex soundtrack of Russian tavern
songs and string quartets. This dark, environmental production returns for a limited time after a critically acclaimed run in the 1999 Fringe Festival.

“At the 1999 Fringe Festival I saw [Robert Honeywell] perform a rather startling solo version of Dostoyevsky’s “Notes from Underground” in almost complete darkness. There was only a small candle that drew all the attention to his face. Even then, the man wanted his spotlight.”
Jason Zinoman – The New York Times Review of “Every Play Ever Written”, June 27, 2007

Adapted and Directed by Michael Gardner
Featuring Robert Honeywell, Heath Kelts*, Mick O’Brien,* Alyssa Simon* and Moira Stone*
Assistant Directed by Gyda Arber; *Appearing courtesy of AEA

90 minutes

Limited & uncomfortable seating! Reserve early.

at The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
one block from the Lorimer stop of the L train / Metropolitan stop of the G train
all tickets: $15.00 available at www.theatermania.com 212-352-3101

Official Website: http://www.bricktheater.com/notesfromunderground/