New York Theatre Workshop
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The Grand Inquisitor
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Oct 29, 2008 – Nov 30, 2008
Tuesdays (7pm)
Wednesdays–Fridays (8pm)
Saturdays (2 & 8pm)
Sundays (3 & 7pm)
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- Price
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$75
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Famed British director Peter Brook helms this well-staged parable from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. A co-presentation by New York Theatre Workshop and Theatre for a New Audience, The Grand Inquisitor, set in 15th-century Seville, ponders the intersection of power, politics, and religion via an encounter between Christ (Jake Smith) and the head of the Inquisition (Brook veteran Bruce Myers). This spare production — which is essentially a tour-de-force monologue by Myers — delivers a resounding critique of the old Church while pushing questions of what constitutes true morality to the fore.
