The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot

Written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and David Fishelson

Narrated by John de Lancie, Sharon Gless, Arye Gross and 20 more

Dostoyevsky’s titanic novels are transformed into spellbinding full cast drama by playwright David Fishelson. In The Brothers Karamazov, the passionate Karamazov brothers spring to life, led by their rogue of a father, who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing, and pitting his three sons against one another. In The Idiot, we meet the childlike Prince Myshkin as he returns to the decadent social whirl of St. Petersburg. The two most beautiful women in town compete for his affections in a duel that grows increasingly dangerous.

Two L.A. Theatre Works full cast performances featuring:

The Brothers Karamazov
John de Lancie as Ivan Karamazov
Sharon Gless as Grushenka
Arye Gross as Alyosha Karamazov
Harry Hamlin as Dmitry Karamazov
Kaitlin Hopkins as Katerina
Joseph Mascolo as Fyodor
Richard Hoyt Miller as Miusov/Waiter/Mussyalovich/Judge Sergeant
John Randolph as Zossima/Visitor
John Rubinstein as Smerdyakov
Tom Virtue as Father Joseph/Pawnbroker/Vrublevsky/Prosecutor/Coachman
Ping Wu as Rakitin/Father Paissy/Innkeeper/Defense Attorney

Directed by David Fishelson. Recorded before a live audience at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Santa Monica in June of 1994.

The Idiot
Edward Asner as General Yepanchin
Kate Asner as Nastasya Filipovna
Angela Bettis as Aglaya
Arye Gross as Ganya Ivolgin
John Kapelos as Lebedev
Robert Machray as General Ivolgin/Totsky
Jon Matthews as Parfyon Rogozhin
Johanna McKayas Varya/Daeya
Paul Mercier as Prince Sherbatsky/Denisov
Laurel Moglen as Adelaida
Michael Rivkin as Eugene Radomsky
Peggy Roeder as Mrs. Yepanchin/Mrs. Ivolgin/Princess Belokonsky
Douglas Weston as Prince Myshkin

Directed by David Fishelson. Recorded before a live audience at the DoubleTree Suites, Santa Monica in February of 1997.

• Language: English
• Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works
• Release date: Aug 1, 2007
• ISBN: 9781580814225

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian author and journalist. He spent four years in prison, endured forced military service and was nearly executed for the crime of reading works forbidden by the government. He battled a gambling addiction that once left him a beggar, and he suffered ill health, including epileptic seizures. Despite these challenges, Dostoevsky wrote fiction possessed of groundbreaking, even daring, social and psychological insight and power. Novels like Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, have won the author acclaim from figures ranging from Franz Kafka to Ernest Hemingway, Friedrich Nietzsche to Virginia Woolf.