Notes from Underground

Notes from Underground is a five-part dramatic oratorio exploring the Underground Man’s desperate masochism. Four actors voice both the character’s inner critics and participants in his story.

Descend into the squalid, candlelit dwelling of Dostoevsky’s Underground Man. Sit on his broken furniture and battered books. Experience his wretched loneliness. Feel his penetrating anguish. Fear his outbursts of manic rage. Voices from the auditorium ring out, belittling and degrading the man. Are the voices his? Are they yours?