The character of Bob Cridon is somewhat a mirror image of myself--we’re both great admirers of the theater and it’s vast potential for human understanding and awareness. Bob Cridon’s great dream is to change the world by interpreting Dostoyevsky’s novel to the present time and staging it as a play. A lot of us in theater start out with a messianic streak, and we think the great magic of the theater and our own wonderful talent will rub off on the world and make it a better place. Somewhere down the line we temper our ambitions and bring it in line with reality. People like Bob Cridon never give up wanting to change the world, and the theater (or more likely the cinema nowadays) is their powerful tool in which to attempt it.

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