SYNOPSIS
- Did you read the book?
- I did.
- Did you really?
- A bit.
- Didn’t you read it all?
- Not all.
- What do you mean you didn’t read it all?
- But who said we had to read it all?

Crime & Punishment is an improvised performance piece in which we create a dialogue between Dostoevsky's novel and theoretical perspectives about punishment, exclusion, guilt and transgression to question our own artistic choices. During it, we (re)negotiate the rules while the action develops and time goes by, amplifying the position of who makes the mistake, who fails, who loses the game and who steals the act.

Using the idea of a game between the individual and the system as a dispositive, we reflect not only about Dostoevsky’s novel, but mostly on the relationships being established during the performative event and our own creative process. We just need two microphones and two players to start the game. Are you ready to play with us? Though this performance doesn’t demand audience participation, we invite you to take part of it, creating the performance with us in real time.

CREATIVE CREDITS
Creation and performance: João Estevens and Mafalda Miranda Jacinto
Assistance: Mariana Nobre Vieira
Image: André Picardo
Video: Joana Sousa
Press: Ana Duarte
Production: Rabbit Hole
Co-production: Teatro Municipal do Porto
Support for international circulation: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Artistic residencies: Forum Dança (Lisbon, PT), Traça (Lisbon, PT), Teatro Rivoli (Porto, PT), Teatro do Mar (Sines, PT), Eira (Lisbon, PT)
Acknowledgements: Adriana Aboim and Rita Morais

VENUES
Rua das Gaivotas6 (Lisbon, PT), Teatro Sá da Bandeira (Santarém, PT), Teatro Rivoli (Porto, PT), Teatro Pradillo (Madrid, ES), pad-Mainz (Mainz, DE)

PRESS
07.Jul.2017. “Rivoli transforma-se neste sábado num campo de batalha… artístico” in Porto. o portal de notícias do Porto.

06.Jul.2017. Rabbit Hole – Entrevista na Coffeepaste.

Jul.2017. Secção Palco – “Cartão de Apresentação” e “5 Melhores Espectáculos do Mês” (3ºLugar) in Time Out Porto.

27.Mai.2017. “Culturas – Obrigatório” in E – A Revista do Expresso.

26.Mai.2017. Mariana Oliveira. “Domínio Público” (Rubrica) da rádio Antena 3.

25.Mai.2017. Lusa. “Crime e castigo” estreia-se hoje no Teatro Praga e reflete sobre norma e transgressão” in Diário de Notícias.

25.Mai.2017. Gonçalo Frota “Um arremesso de perguntas para desiquilibrar o outro” in Jornal Público.

25.Mai.2017. Rita Bertrand “Estreia Hoje o Espetáculo Crime e Castigo” in Revista Sábado.

24.Mai.2017. Aurélio Gomes. Programa “Inferno”. No Canal Q às 22h30.

24.Mai.2017. Maria Ramos da Silva. Time Out Lisboa.

23.Mai.2017. José Carlos Barreto. Programa “Zona J” da TSF Rádio Notícias.

13.Mai.2017. “Crime e Castigo estreia na Rua das Gaivotas” in Infocul.pt.