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Executive Artistic Director’s Note

Outside of the Bible, Crime and Punishment is my favorite book.  The first time I read it, I couldn’t put it down.  I read it in three days, only taking breaks to sleep and eat.  I was fully mesmerized.  My heart broke for every single person in the narrative.  Dostoevsky has oft been lauded as a genius for his miles-deep psychological explorations of our sinful nature.  But his real genius, in my mind, is his ability to make us feel both deep sympathy and deep empathy for and with the most broken of people.  I’ve wanted to adapt this book for the stage for quite some time as I don’t believe the other performance-related adaptations I’ve read or seen have fully grasped the Christian ramifications of the story.  Upon re-reading it five or so years ago, the idea of moving it into the contemporary became stuck in my writing mind.  I couldn’t shake it.  And, as a rule of thumb, I’ve learned that if I can’t shake something then I need to write it.  Crime and Punishment: 2026 takes Dostoevsky’s most celebrated of works and paints it with a modern brush.  If you’ve read the book, you know it treads in extraordinarily dark places.  But so does the Bible.  And darkness is simply the absence of light.  I would challenge our audiences to sit with that darkness, absorb it, search their own hearts for their own shadows of brokenness, and walk away compelled to shine that much brighter. 

Theatre is an art form that from its inception has had the proven power to move and to stir the human spirit. This can have a wide variety of manifestations. We are often stirred up, and that kind of event can have us needing to talk to someone about it. We recommend that you find a licensed mental healthcare professional to help you work through difficult feelings that may have been stirred up by a play. You should always work with someone that you have a great connection with. If you need help starting that process, we recommend our partners at Ellie Mental Health as a starting place.

You might also be stirred to do something about how a particular play made you feel. Below we have provided a quick link to be able to donate to us here at the A. D. Players at the George Theatre. As a 501(c)3, we rely heavily on donations to continue the work that we do. If, however, you want to do something meaningful about some of the issues addressed by our shows, we are also including links to organizations that do meaningful work in the areas addressed by the content of our show. These are not exhaustive options, but merely starting places to help you on your journey to continue to effect change in your world.