Sad Songs From the Heart of Europe
Now it’s Sonja’s turn to talk. She tells us a story that many of us have already heard but never fails to arrest us: how her father drinks away the last of the money, regrets it every time but won’t quit, how the only way to support her siblings is to head out onto the streets. And how one day a young man enters her life, his conscience burdened by a secret...
Crime and Punishment takes on a new, poetic, and genuinely theatrical form in this monologue play, in which Sonja performs all of the roles. Guilt, shame, hate, love, and redemption bite all the way to the marrow, palpable and real. Smeds, one of the top names in contemporary European theatre, brings this classic to the present day but does so in a purely Dostoyevskian spirit.
The play has been translated into English, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, French, Flemish and Slovenian.
