based on Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment
text: Ani Vaseva, in collaboration with Boyan Manchev
dramatourge: Boyan Manchev
director: Ani Vasevva
stage designer: Venelin Shurelov
costume designer: Nelli Miteva
photographer: Ivan Donchev
with: Hristo Petkov, Iva Sveshtarova, Elena Dimitrova, Borche Gjakovski, Petar Genkov
That was the graduating performance of Ani Vaseva. Premiere – TL Sfumato, November 2008.
The tragedy is the genre of the inevitable: of destiny. Svidrigaylov speaks about the inevitability of the image: about the violence of its presence we cannot escape.
The image crushes us, nails us, kills us. It is the only air we are breathing, the air that suffocates us.
The Gothic visions are too soft for Dostoevsky; he is the forerunner of the inorganic fetishes hard-core that blinds us at the end of the world. In this apocalyptic world, world at the end of the world, world of harrowing intensivity, world of unlimited reversibility, i.e. perversion, the turn, the reverse is impossible.