Subject to Fits

Robert Montgomery’s Subject to Fits: A Response to Dostoevsky’s The Idiot is a funny, outrageous, unorthodox, highly theatrical and unexpectedly moving comedy about the misadventures of the innocent Prince Myshkin. As Myshkin – called “an idiot” by the crass because he suffers from epilepsy – struggles to fit into 19th century Russian society, he encounters a world of lunatic acquaintances and the black comedy inherent in Dostoevsky’s writings.