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Review - The Grand Inquisitor - Religion Used for Political Gain and Power

New York Times

Holy Man and Holier in a Battle for Power
Peter Brook’s production of “The Grand Inquisitor,” at the New York Theater Workshop, is less an interpretation than a straightforward presentation of Dostoevsky’s parable of worldly and spiritual power

Newsday

'The Grand Inquisitor': Jesus at the Inquisition

Bloomberg.com

Brook Tortures Dostoyevsky in Staging of `Grand Inquisitor': John Simon
"The Grand Inquisitor,'' adapted from a segment of "The Brothers Karamazov'' at Peter Brook's behest, is showing at New York Theatre Workshop in the East Village, a favorite venue for outlandish offerings.

Variety

Review: The Grand Inquisitor
As delivered by a magisterial Bruce Myers lecturing a mute Christ, the harsh but brilliantly argued critique of the bedrock positions of Christian theology lands with a shock.

Back Stage

The Grand Inquisitor reviewed by David A. Rosenberg
Although this is more a rhetorical exercise than a play in the traditional sense of that word, the evening engages willing listeners as two men challenge each other.

TheaterMania

Review: The Grand Inquisitor
Peter Brook's staging of an excerpt from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is a rapt and challenging experience.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: The Grand Inquisitor
The Grand Inquisitor, the C.I.C.T./Théatre des Bouffes du Nord piece that Theatre for a New Audience and New York Theatre Workshop are coproducing at the latter’s East Village mainstage, is obviously a frugal producer’s dream. But it has so many strikes against it at the outset for the average audience member, on paper the project looks like one big scribble. . . .

nytheatre.com

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CurtainUp

Review: The Grand Inquisitor
Very well-written and executed but ultimately it's a purely intellectual exercise