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Crime and Punishment (stage version)

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ISBN: 9781848423657
Author: By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Adapted by Chris Hannan
Publication Date: 05/09/2013
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Extent: 112pp.
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SKU: BK1546 Categories: Adaptations, Drama, Full-length, Plays, Political / social themes Tag: Nick Hern Books
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An exciting, fresh and accessible adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s masterful novel.

Starving, destitute student Raskolnikov is surrounded by the harsh injustices of the world: the grime of poverty and prostitution, unscrupulous pawnbrokers chasing debts, and a sister about to marry someone she doesn’t love to keep her family alive. His guilt is unbearable. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer any chance of redemption.

As Raskolnikov enters a dangerous cat and mouse game with the examining magistrate, a psychological thriller unfolds that probes how far humanity might go when driven by disillusionment and whether any crime can be justified by a higher purpose.

Chris Hannan’s adaptation of Crime and Punishment was first performed at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, in 2013, followed by a UK tour.

‘Both a classic come to life and an urgent new work which develops its own style and language rather than slavishly imitating the text and it’s all the better for it’
— Independent

‘Powerful… To find a theatrical structure, adaptor Chris Hannan roams freely through the novel. He turns interior monologue into direct address, thins out subplots and reconfigures the sequence of events to fashion a fluid route through the story’
— Guardian

‘Magnificent… a fluent, beautiful, profoundly theatrical account of one of the great stories of world literature’
— Scotsman

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