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"Allowing the audience to amble around where they want is exactly the intention of Dreamthinkspeak's Underground, another project from the Brighton festival. Although inspired by a classic narrative, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, and taking place in a traditional space, Brighton's Theatre Royal, Underground seems intent on questioning the very experience of theatre itself. The audience enter three at a time through the stage door and after that they can wander around the building, where they may stumble across a vodka den in the orchestra pit, witness Raskolnikov's gruesome murder of the pawnbroker in one of the theatre dressing rooms, or peer underneath the stage and glimpse the murdered woman searching for her lost jewels and lost life. There is no story in the traditional sense of a linear narrative, merely a series of fragments that the audience can gather together and make sense of however they choose."