Brott och Straff (Crime and Punishment)
Backa Teater, Göteborgs stadsteater
June 3rd 6pm
June 4th 6pm
June 5th 6pm
Backateatern, Gothenburg
The jury’s motivation: Backa Teater’s bold project 3 x Crime and Punishment brings a sense of freshness and urgency to the idea of contemporary theatre. With their three productions, Dumstrut (Dunce Cap), Att döda en Tivoli (To Kill a Carnival) and Brott och straff (Crime and Punishment) they have solidly placed Dostoyevsky’s classic questions of life and morality in our own times. The set design, common to all three productions, turns the old factory into a classical arena for existential discourse, giving gravity and play equal status as elements of expression. From the playground to the courtroom we confront, on concrete and philosophical levels, the questions of crime, punishment, social exclusion, responsibility, atonement and forgiveness. Good and Evil. 3 x Brott och straff challenges us, crosses all age barriers and restores our faith in the theatre as an artistic power in our society.
By Fjodor Dostojevskij
Directing & adaption for the stage Mattias Andersson
Setdesign & costume Ulla Kassius
Lightdesign Tomas Fredriksson, Peter Moa
Make up Linda Boije af Gennäs
Sounddesign Mattias Björnström, Jonas Redig,
Backa Teaters musiker
Dramaturgy Lena Fridell, Lucia Cajchanová
On stage Anette Bjärlestam,
Mats Blomgren, Pamela Cortés Bruna,
Ylva Gallon, Anna Harling, Maria Hedborg,
Rolf Holmgren, Joel Kinnaman,
Rasmus Lindgren, Stephen K Lwanga,
Sergej Merkusjev, Maryam Moghaddam,
Ramtin Parvaneh, Laurence Plumridge,
Ulf Rönnerstrand, Kjell Wilhelmsen,
Lars Väringer
Music & on stage Stefan Abelsson,
Anders Blad, Daniel Ekborg, Mats Nahlin,
Bo Stenholm
App. 3 h and 40 min incl intermission.
First performance 17 nov 2007. From 15 years old.
A bloody axe. Two corpses. And hot on the heels of the crime, the police, their nostrils wet with the scent of the perpetrator. Can young Raskolnikov outsmart them? Is he able to survive the pangs of his own conscious? Fiction and reality, theatre and real life: the borders disappear when Dostoyevsky’s classic clashes with today’s Göteborg. One of the world’s most publicized murder stories appears in a modern adaptation penned by Mattias Andersson, Backa Teater’s artistic director. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before.