
It premiered as part of the 2015 Manchester International Festival, in a co-production with The Invisible Dot. Lets Read 'The Crocodile' by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Audiobook) Hippias Minor. But all that is about to change when, one afternoon at the zoo with his friend Zack, he is swallowed whole by a crocodile.īased on Dostoyevsky’s short story, Tom Basden’s The Crocodile is a ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try to take on the system from within… a crocodile. Ivan is a struggling actor who hasn’t yet achieved the recognition he feels he deserves. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist. ‘I’m not angry with you, Zack, I’m angry in general. LibriVox recording of The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
