“Crime and Punishment”: Intiman Theatre’s associate director Sheila Daniels launches Intiman’s 2009 season with this Dostoyevsky masterpiece adapted as a 90- minute psycho-thriller.
This version of “Crime and Punishment” unfolds through three actors who pull the audience inside the minds of its characters while debating such topics as the nature of evil.
Raskolnikov, a poor student, murders two women in an attempt to prove that he is one of the “extraordinary” people — those who have the right to kill. As he is interrogated by Inspector Porfiry, flashbacks reveal the murderer’s life and relationships.
“Crime and Punishment” begins with previews at 7:30 p.m. Sunday and runs at various times through May 3 at Intiman Theatre, 201 Mercer St., Seattle. Tickets are $10 to $52; call 206-269-1900 or go to www.intiman.org. Recommended for ages 13 and older.
Also on tap for Intiman’s 2009 season:
“A Thousand Clowns”: By Herb Gardner, May 15 through June 17. This Tony Award-winner, set in 1962, features an unconventional family who takes their first steps at trying to change the world while bucking the agents of Eisenhower-era conformity.
“Othello”: By Shakespeare. July 2 through Aug. 2. Tony-Award-winning director Bartlett Sher does his first-ever production of “Othello,” taking the audience on a ride through this thrilling tragedy to reveal the play’s one true terror: How easily one man’s whisper can obliterate all reason.
“The Year of Magical Thinking”: By Joan Didion. Aug.21 through Sept. 20. This work is based on Didion’s award-winning memoir that chronicled her process of mourning after the sudden deaths of her husband and the couple’s only child.
“Abe Lincoln in Illinois”: By Robert E. Sherwood. Oct. 2 through Nov. 15. Spanning 20 years, the period of Lincoln’s maturation before he became president, “Abe Lincoln in Illinois” is an epic play about the making of this great man and the shaping of U.S. history.
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