F. M. Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment


Studio Performance in the Main Hall

The first
Marius Manole / Relu Poalelungi
 
The second
Marius Manole / Relu Poalelungi
 
The third
Marius Manole / Relu Poalelungi
 
Porfiry
Marius Manole / Relu Poalelungi
 
Sonia
Rodica Lazăr / Anca Androne
 
Aliona
Anca Androne / Rodica Lazăr

adaptation, directed by
Yuriy Kordonskiy
 
set design
Tina Louise Jones
 
costume design
Nina Brumuşilă
 
light design
John Carr
 
stage manager
Mihaela Oance

Date of the opening: december 04, 2008

Kordonski is less interested in the psychological and the social aspect of the novel, than in the discovery of Dostoevsky’s surrealism and in showing its mystical side. Thus, Crime and Punishment is a performance about a man placed between God and the devil, about a man torn in three. “Raskol” means “to divide oneself”, “to dismember”, and the audience is invited on the scene, all around the space of the play, to assist in the tearing of a man who is searching for himself, for God and who, in the meantime, wants to discover his own truth. A white room which can be seen from three sides, with three doors, the walls of which are torn and cut to let the room – Raskolnikov’s conscience – be raked by the spectator’s regard. All is passing here, the characters enter his brain and we see the facts not as they were, but as they appear in this space where, on the floor, light beams are projecting a grating.”  Ana-Maria Nistor, Time Out, Bucharest