The I
diot
Direction and adaptation
Mattias Andersson
Costume and set design
Ulla Kassius
Light design
Charlie Åström
Costume and make up
Linda Hyllengren, Nathalie Pujol
Sound design and music
Anna Sóley Tryggvadóttir
Dramaturgy
Emma Meyer-Duner
Producer
Benoît Malmberg
Music
Good Feeling – Flo Rida / Girls Like Us – PINS / She's Lost Control – Grace Jones / Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor
Mit
David Dencik (Prinz Myshkin)
Carl Magnus Dellow (Ardalion)
Ardalan Esmaili (Ganja)
Ellen Jelinek (Varja)
Melinda Kinnaman (Adelaida)
Tanja Lorentzon (Aleksandra)
Per Mattsson (Totskij)
Marall Nasiri (Nastasia)
Marie Richardson (Lizavjeta)
Andreas Rothlin Svensson (Ivan)
Jennie Silfverhjelm (Aglaja)
Lil Terselius (Nina)
Björn Bengtsson (Rogozjin)
Alexej Manvelov (Ippolit)
and students from Sundbyberg Theater Studio
For the 200th anniversary of Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky’s birth, Lessingtage Digital is showing two very different adaptations of his novel “The Idiot”. The director and artistic director of Dramaten, Mattias Andersson, goes first with his modern and polyphonic interpretation, in which nobody can evade their personal responsibility.
Prince Myshkin is a kind-hearted person. He always thinks of the good of others, meets everyone with understanding. No wonder his surroundings are provoked. Is he in fact an idiot? Or does he have a hidden agenda? And is it really goodness to show generosity and to share, if you were born privileged?
Playwright and director Mattias Andersson take his starting point in Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic novel „The Idiot“ to examine the relevance of its ethical, political and existential issues in our time. With a polyphony of voices and texts from 1869 to today „The Idiot“ creates a performance work of art about the questions and provocation of goodness.
Dramaten, Stockholm, Sweden, Premiere 2015
in Swedish with English subtitles
duration 2:35h
January 22nd, 2021, 7pm (available until midnight) on thalia-theater.de/en/lessingtage
