AVT is pleased to announce auditions for Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”, a drama by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus, and produced by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing.

Please contact the Production Stage Manager, Karen Gruca (karen@avthespians.org) to schedule an appointment for Saturday, August 15th.  The format will be cold reading.

Rehearsals will be at most weekly, beginning in mid to late September. There will be three performances, two on Saturday January 16th, and one on Sunday January 17th.

We are looking for:

• One male for the lead, Rodion Raskolnikov.  Lots of lines, on stage almost continuously for 90 min.  The character is dark (metaphorically), disturbing, fidgety, and psychologically off-balance.  Primary desired quality is intense depth of character.
• One male to play Porfiry Petrovich (a detective), as well as minor roles Marmeladov (a drunk) and Koch (town citizen).  We need a versatile actor to play multiple, very different characters.
• One female to play Sonia (a prostitute), as well as minor roles Alyona (a miserly pawnbroker), Lizaveta (an innocent victim), and Mother (a saintly figure).  We need a versatile actress to play multiple, very different characters, with little time in between switching roles.

Due to the subject matter and a few instances of profanity and violence, this play is not deemed suitable for youth actors.

This new, award-winning adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s literary masterpiece Crime and Punishment is set in 1860’s St. Petersburg, where Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov relives the thoughts, ideas and feelings that drove him to his horrible crime. This “conversation on the nature of evil” becomes a dark 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 intense psychological and spiritual journey which seeks to unveil hidden dimensions of the human condition, and the power of faith to heal even the gravest and most disturbing wounds of the soul.