Johan Simons is staging Dostoyevsky’s “Demons” – Kultur at the Burgtheater in Vienna

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Egbert Tholl

Finally, Nikolaj Stavrogin begins to make a confession. At that time, one had already spent quite some time in the Burgtheater in Vienna, heard many words and will hear many more. After all, the novel for this theater evening has 930 pages: Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Demons” can be heard here in Swetlana Geier’s translation, which bears the idiosyncratic title “Evil Spirits”. But be that as it may, because everyone here is haunted by ghosts or demons, maybe the characters themselves are ghosts too.

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