In Sad Songs from the Heart of Europe director Kristian Smeds strips Crime and Punishment of its historical veil and transposes the characters and their respective stories to 21st century Europe. To the Lithuanian suburbs for example, or the periphery of Paris...
In Sad Songs from the Heart of Europe the protagonists are unquestionably the disadvantaged. Smeds gives a voice to the grey margin of our society. To those individuals who, against their will, are at the mercy of the centrifugal force of the centre. He is talking about our Europe, a continent where violence stems from powerlessness, a continent disfigured by consumption. However painful this may be, it does not make Kristian Smeds more cynical. On the contrary. He seeks beauty in the ugly, and belief in the possibility of a miracle is never far away.
Performances at Turku City Theatre, Pikkolo stage, on Tuesday the 17th May at 7.30 pm, on Wednesday the 18th May at 4 pm and on Thursday the 19th May at 8.30 pm.
Performed in Lithuanian (easy to follow without knowledge of Lithuanian)
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