At the threshold of the millennium, Russian theater has launched a new experiment, mixing pure classical literature with current slang and the subculture of Moscow's suburbs. In the recent performance of Dostoyevsky Trip, seven young drug users, all dressed in black leather jackets and T-shirts, are going through the agony of withdrawal, longing for the arrival of their dealer so they can get another fix.
Hours pass, but their fix is never delivered.
The new Russian generation, the so-called Pepsi generation, is not used to reading at all, let alone classical literature. The producer and the author regard these youngsters as patients at a session of theatrical group therapy. These questions immediately spring to the spectator s mind. Spontaneously, the performance shifts to the presentation of Dostoyevsky s novel The Idiot with no change in costumes and manners. This is not a performance for the faint-hearted.