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Home > Browse > Full Length Plays > Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Adapted by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus. From the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Product Code: CB8000

Full-length Play

Drama

Cast size: 2m., 1w. (Cast can be expanded to 3m., 4w. for amateur productions only.)

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Awards: Joseph Jefferson Award (Equity)

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Synopsis

This new, award-winning adaptation of Dostoyevsky's literary masterpiece Crime and Punishment is told by three actors playing Raskolnikov (the murderer), Porfiry Petrovitch (the detective), Sonia (the young prostitute) and many other characters in this famous story. This "conversation on the nature of evil" is set in the mind of the murderer where he relives and explores, through the urging of Porfiry and Sonia, the thoughts, ideas and feelings that drove him to his horrible crime. The play becomes a psychological landscape which creates a thrilling journey into the mind of a killer and his search for redemption. Raskolnikov speaks directly to the audience at times, putting his case to them, so that the audience becomes another character in the telling. This is an intimate psychological and spiritual journey which seeks to unveil hidden dimensions of the human condition.

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A script revision is available in the Downloads section.

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Details

Status In stock
Type of Show Full-length Play
Product Code CB8000
Minimum Cast Size 3
Pages of Dialogue 45
Min. Royalty Rate $110.00/perf
Approx. Run Time 90 min
Staging Unit set.

Media Reviews

"In a feat that rivals the construction of the Hoover Dam, Crime and Punishment has been distilled into a taut 90-minute play that will banish any bad memories you might have of trying to struggle through Dostoyevsky's book. Just three actors tell the tale and may have you confessing to some murders yourself by the play's end." -The New York Times

"Only occasionally can the production of a classic make us see the work differently...this adaptation and production remind us how thrilling a classic can be. On opening night you feel the audience holding its breath throughout the performance. Go: it will leave you breathless, too." -AISLE SAY Chicago

"Raskolnikov’s journey may be, in essence, a 90-minute exercise in logic, but here it’s a remarkably absorbing one." -The New York Times

"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 ax." -Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

"Who would have thought that the novel no high school student has ever finished reading would make such engrossing theater?" -The New York Times

Production Map

Location	City	State	Opens	Closes
Baylor University	Waco	TX	06/27/2025	06/29/2025
The Rogue Theatre	Tucson	AZ	03/28/2026	03/29/2026

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File Description	File Format
Script Revision	pdf	Download
Performance Poster	pdf	Download

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