Games for Faust

based on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

Genre
Duration: 2:15 minutes with intermission
Date of premiere: April 9, 1994

“…after all, in the beginning was Dostoevsky. From him comes a sickly fevered rhythm of a play, mystical, fatal enchainment between its main characters, from him comes the inevitability of their appearance and disappearance. From him—the unrelenting pull of mutual mental attraction, as if something the characters can’t understand for themselves is delivered by the others. And as such, it goes on, with the same inevitability and harshness. That’s what makes Faust Faustian, and Mephistopheles Mephistophelian.”
Iurii Fridshtein, “Ekran I stsena”

Director – Volodymyr Kuchynsky
Set Design – Oleksandr Overchuk
Costume Design – Olha Baklan

Cast:
Svidrigailov – Oleh Tsiona
Raskolnikov – Andriy Vodychev
Dunya – Mariya Oneshchak
Pulkheria Oleksandrivna – Tetiana Kaspruk