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Article: The Brothers Karamazov
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THEATER REVIEW
The Brothers Karamazov
Playwright: Adapted by Heidi StHIm an from the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
At: Lookinggglass Theatre, 821 N. Michigan (Water Tower Water Works)
Phone: 312-337-0665; $30-$60
Runs through: Dec. 7
BY CATEY SULLIVAN
Everything about The Brothers Karamazov is lusciously super-sized. The thickly serpentine story bursts at its gorgeous, intricately woven seams with voracious debauchery and true piety, with soul-trying passion and pure holiness, with madness and murder and money and mystery and this above all else - an utterly accessible exploration of an epic battle.
Here, in the bleak years of early 20th century Russia, harsh, inarguable feats of immaculately ...