Underground
based on Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground
About
WE ALL, AT TIMES, WANT TO RUN AWAY. REMOVE OURSELVES FROM SOCIETY. WHERE MIGHT WE RUN TO?
Babel's production explores the world of one of Dostoyevsky's notorious characters, only really ever known as: The Underground Man.
As he drags the audience on an obscure journey through his own analysis of the human psyche in a tantalisingly strange landscape blitzed with stunning images, deliciously obscure text and a penchant for the ridiculous, he and audience members along with him are forced to question their places in today's society.
Commissioned by HOME and developed as part of their Russian season for Autumn 2017, marking 100 years since the Russian Revolution.
CREATIVE TEAM
Producer: Hannah Ellis
Associate Director: Sam Ward
Sound: Owen Rafferty
Devising Collaborators:
Wiebke Acton, Christopher Finnegan, Sophie Giddens, Kayleigh Hawkins and Tilda O'Grady
With support and special thanks to:
Walter Meierjohann, Petra Tauscher, Jennie McCusker and Kevin Jamieson
SUPPORT
Underground was commissioned by HOME as part of their Russian season and supported with National Lottery Funding from Arts Council England.
“I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.”
— The Underground Man