Rude Mechs’ Experiment with Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov

Rude Mechs, an Austin-based ensemble in their twenty-first year of collective creation, recently appeared at the Yale Repertory Theatre. As is their wont, Rude Mechs’ production is a reshaping of a work whose ideas, characters, potential for humor and updating appealed to the group. Consensus is de rigueur in the running of this company. …