Characters: 6 male, 3 female
Interior
Robert Montgomery calls his
Subject To Fits
not an adaptation but "a response to Dostoyevsky's
The Idiot
, smacking of
, dreaming of
, but mostly taking off from where
drove it." Prince Myshkin, a pure soul just released from an epilepsy clinic, is thrown into the mad whirl of St. Petersburg society. His child-like honesty steals the hearts of two competing women: the aris