Immerse in Rajat Kapoor's unique take on Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov

Updated On: 01 August, 2024 08:56 AM IST | Mumbai | Shriram Iyengar

After a two-decade run of his unique take on Shakespeare’s tragedies, Rajat Kapoor attempts to adapt a Russian classic with his next production, Karamjale Brothers

Rajat Kapoor (centre) takes his team through the warmups before rehearsals for the play. Pics/Shadab Khan

There was a time when Russian literature was celebrated the world over. Chekhov, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn and Pushkin were popular choices among the reading elite. Above them all, was Fyodor Dostoevsky. In a 1928 essay, Sigmund Freud remarked on the author’s creativity saying, “Dostoevsky is not far behind Shakespeare.” Theatremaker Rajat Kapoor is sticking to that Freudian observation. He follows up his clowning take on Shakespeare’s four tragedies with a new production tomorrow titled Karamjale Brothers, adapted from the Russian author’s 1879 classic, The Brothers Karamazov.

From William to Fyodor

“You respond to certain books in a certain way. This is one book of Dostoevsky’s that I had never managed to finish. I had read Demons, Crime and Punishment and the rest,” Kapoor admits over a phone call.

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