The Washington Post, November 7th, 2003
They mug. They gesticulate. They stand partly concealed behind black panels and -- for no obvious reason -- make cryptic, spidery movements with their fingers. No, subtlety is not a characteristic of the performers in "The Brothers Karamazov," the Stanislavsky Theater Studio's bold and sometimes resonant adaptation of Feodor Dostoevski's 1879 novel. Indeed, in a production whose spare, somewhat symbolic set and costume design occasionally give it the reserved beauty of a Russian icon, the exaggerated mannerisms of the actors run more to the rococo. But then you can't exactly slap a minimalist ...
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