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Wrecks - a solo performance in which Harris proffers a kind of Dostoyevskian monologue (which means it's partly rambling, partly unstable, yet largely profound) from the point of view of a widower at the viewing of his deeply cherished wife.
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It's an unthreatening simulacrum of dark passion in which everything wild and unheimlich about sexual obsession, murder, disfigurement and – my personal favourite – Dostoyevskian self-loathing is benumbed with unremittingly sweet tunes many of which, according to Kit and the Widow's turn at August's Comedy Prom, Lloyd Webber recycled from older, better composers.
I don't know how to love him (the Phantom of the Opera, that is) 2011
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More than a century later, this section of the city was still crippled by the Dostoyevskian physical and spiritual decay.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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Treme is less focused on cause-and-effect than The Wire, which was a grand, sprawling, Dostoyevskian story.
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More than a century later, this section of the city was still crippled by the Dostoyevskian physical and spiritual decay.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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Treme is less focused on cause-and-effect than The Wire, which was a grand, sprawling, Dostoyevskian story.
Marshall Fine: Treme : A Complex, Enthralling New Drama 2010
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Within the alternating moods and modes, some of the set-pieces -- especially a pistol duel that Nikolay dallies with and Nikolay's late and spectacularly Dostoyevskian confession of his sins to a sympathetic priest -- stun in their theatricality, while others -- a lengthy conversation among several townsfolk at Varvara Petrovna's commodious digs and, much later, a party intended to be festive but disrupted by dissenters -- are merely static.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Peter Stein Scores with Dostoyevsky's The Demons for 12 Hours! 2010
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A Dostoyevskian inspired tale, The Tenant is supremely creepy, philosophically fascinating, funny and daring.
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A Dostoyevskian inspired tale, The Tenant is supremely creepy, philosophically fascinating, funny and daring.
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This was a very Dostoyevskian line: Mike Tyson saying "My insanity is my only sanity."
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