Title

Russian Language Students Stage Dostoevsky's "The Crocodile"

Document Type

Blog Entry

Publication Date

1-6-2016

Abstract

At the end of the fall 2015 semester, Russian language students in the UVa Slavic Department held two performances of F.M. Dostoevsky’s “The Crocodile.” The first was held at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday, December 5, and the second was staged in the Nau Hall auditorium on Wednesday, December 9. The all-student cast recited dialogue in Russian, but English subtitles were also projected above the stage so that non-Russian speakers could follow the action of the play. The UVa College Council and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures generously provided support to the production, allowing both performances to be free and open to the public. About 120 people attended the two shows, and the audience included university students, faculty, staff, and members of the local community.

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Copyright © 2016 The North American Dostoevsky Society. This blog post first appeared in The Bloggers Karamazov: The Official Blog of the North American Dostoevsky Society (January 2016).

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