Theatre

Is death knocking on your door today?

Nineteenth-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, originator of Notes from the Underground and a seminal figure in existentialism, foresaw that rationalism would wipe out the desire for freedom and ethical considerations while moral conventions would undermine the complexity of human nature. Could self-awareness enable us to confront these invisible forces and regain control of our own fate again? In an extraordinary event, taking in fragments of Dostoevsky’s works, comedy, the grotesque, and “Art as Vehicle” to transform perception, the Workcenter delivers an underground tour of our unlived wishes and desires, and poses the compelling question: can we liberate ourselves from becoming a member of the living dead?