Crime and Punishment

One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - its simple arithmetic!

Impoverished student Raskolnikov believes himself above the law. Believes himself to be extraordinary to such an extent that he may decide who is worthy of life and of death.

But that all ends when he meets Inspector Porfiry, a master of mind games who is determined to elicit a confession from the ever-more-tortured Raskolnikov. Is Raskolnikov going to crack?”

Caroline Stacey directs Christopher Samuel Carroll, PJ Williams and Josephine Gazard in a richly dark, suspenseful production about the forces that disconnect humans from each other in this thrilling detective story of the soul.

A taut, thrilling award-winning adaptation that compresses all the tension and pathos of the novel into a powerful 90 minutes of theatre that is at once fresh and faithful to the original. Often spoken of as the greatest crime story ever written, it is a tale of murder, motive and the search for redemption that plumbs the fundamental questions of existence.

"Stunningly lean, taut and emotionally searing… a work of theatre that never feels like a condensation of a seminal 500-page novel, but rather has the swift, sharp impact of a blow from an axe." Chicago Sun-Times