Nobody knows what was on the director’s mind when he chose the novel “Idiot” by Fyodor Dostoevsky for a stage adaptation. While thinking about the Shakespearean trilogy by Eimuntas Nekrošius, the lines from Macbeth’s monologue, “Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury…” come to mind. The entire perception of life hardly yields to a simple description, but in this case it might be a key unlocking the newest complex work by Nekrošius.

The newest performance of Eimuntas Nekrošius “Idiot” lasts as many as five hours. However, it is not that long for the director who has resolved to reveal the basic plot of the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky coherently. Nekrošius along with thirteen actors preserves the main sequence of events of “Idiot”, as well as expands the frames of the action time.