Dostoyevsky set for Lincoln Center Festival 2010

[March 11, 2010]  NEW YORK (AP) -- A 12-hour adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel will be among the highlights of Lincoln Center Festival 2010, running for 45 performances this summer.

Festival director Nigel Redden said Wednesday the arts celebration, which runs from July 7 to July 25, will take place at Lincoln Center and at various other locations around New York. The festival includes two events on Governors Island, located off lower Manhattan.

The Governors Island productions will include Peter Stein's 12-hour version of Dostoyevsky's "The Demons," performed July 10 and July 11 in Italian with English subtitles. The novel, also known as "The Possessed," concerns a group of young revolutionaries.

Among the other groups scheduled to take part in the festival are the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (July 15-17) and Toneelgroep Amsterdam, which will present an adaptation by Ivo van Hove of "Teorema," Pier Paolo Pasolini's film and novel of middle-class disintegration. It runs July 15-19.

The festival will open with the American premiere of Hisashi Inoue's Noh-inspired play "Musashi" (July 7-10). It will also include "A Disappearing Number," created by Complicite, the British theater company under the direction of Simon McBurney. "Number" (July 15-18) examines the friendship between two famous mathematicians, G.H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, in the early years of the 20th century, juxtaposed with a contemporary love story.

The New York Philharmonic will be featured in the festival, too, helping to perform the complete works of innovative composer Edgard Varese (July 19-20). And dance also will be represented by Thailand's Pichet Klunchun Dance Company (July 24-25).

[Associated Press]

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