UNDERGROUND††††††††††††††††††††††††

Based on Dostoyevsky’s most famous novel CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.

The story revolves around Raskolnikov, an impoverished student who commits a gruesome murder and is then forced to come to terms with his crime, himself and the society in which he lives.

UNDERGROUND explores the feverish, oppressive atmosphere and nightmarish quality of Dostoyevsky’s world by creating a highly visual work that will lead you into the labyrinthine basement of an old abattoir in Clerkenwell.

You will have complete freedom to explore corridors, stairwells and basements previously undiscovered by the public. You may follow a character or simply wander through the inter-connecting maze of spaces catching scenes, film-sequences and musical fragments as you go.

UNDERGROUND will take you into an unstable and constantly shifting world, like a hallucinatory dream where scenes, sounds, fragments, chance encounters and film images merge, transform and dissolve.

UNDERGROUND is co-commissioned by BITE:05 Barbican, London; Brighton Festival; Made in Brighton Ltd; South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell.

Presented in Partnership with The Open University.

Underground
10 – 29 October
The Old Abattoir, Clerkenwell

Young Genius / BITE:05

Box office: 0845 120 7554
http://www.barbican.org.uk/bite