On Crime
Based on Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky
This is the second part in the Man and God trilogy created by the Malenky theater: man against God. In an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece, Crime and Punishment, we chose the story line of a man who challenges God and asks: “Am I a trembling creature or do I have a right?” To test it, the student Raskolnikov murders the old usurious woman. In the novel he also kills her sister who happens to come to the apartment. The plot becomes a three-way relationship between Raskolnikov, the evildoer, Sonia, the prostitute (symbol of crime), and Porphiry, the investigator, representing law and morality. They pressure Raskolnikov from two sides to make him confess his crime, but also to make him expiate it voluntarily.
Premiere: January 2007, the Tmuna theater
