Russia in the 1860s. Ideologies are beginning to rise, threatening to clash. Tensions over the future are in the air. So too in a small Russian town, N., where members of a once-created society destined to dictate the rebirth of Russia meet. Among them are Stavrogin, the teacher and mentor of his comrades, Shatov, a poor God-seeking Slavophile, Kirillov, who believes in the redemption of suicide, Verkhovensky, the founder of the society and a radicalized revolutionary, Marya Timofeyevna, a flawed woman married to Stavrogin, and Lebyadkin, Marya Timofeyevna's drunkard brother. However, the turbulent times have changed the former friends. One by one, they turn to Stavrogin with their pain and faith, but he too has not remained untouched by the past, carrying his demon in his soul. Left without their leader and signpost, the former revolutionaries are tormented as if by an evil spirit, each with their own idea, a credo, the feverish worship of which blurs their path and prevents them from clearly understanding either themselves or their surroundings, driving them unwaveringly towards death and destruction.

With the production “Demons”, Kudu turns to Dostoevsky’s novel “Evil Spirits” for the third time (the second time at TÜT). Peeter Piiri and Enor Niinemägi are participating in the new version of the 2006 production at TÜT. The script was written by Kudu together with Vaino Vahing, but while the 2006 production focused on young anarchists and their rebellion in the small town of N., the focus of the new production is on the main character Nikolai Stavrogin and his nightmares, which will not let him go and from which he cannot get rid of.