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Kristian Smeds: Sad Songs from the Heart of Europe

Sad Songs from the Heart of Europe is the performance by acknowledged Finnish playwright and director Kristian Smeds in collaboration with one of the leading young Lithuanian actress Aldona Bendoriute. Produced by the Audronis Liuga Production (Branch of the TCIEC). Co-produced by Baltic Circle, KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, Helsinki Festival, Vilnius International Theatre Festival Sirenos. Sad Songs from the Heart of Europe is the original play by Kristian Smeds based on Dostoyevsky novel Crime and Punishment. The play and performance consists of twelve scenes of songs, a literary form that affords the author a certain freedom in the writing and can be associated with melancholy, desire and even beauty. Whereas in Dostoyevsky the murderous Raskolnikov is the central character, Kristian Smeds zooms in on the figure of Sonia, his lover. He strips Crime and Punishment of its geopolitical veil and transposes the characters and their respective stories to 21st century Europe. To the Lithuanian suburbs for example, or the periphery of Paris... http://www.smedsensemble.fi