On the 19th of October 2015 at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation the Chroma Group and the director Constantinos Hadjis will be presenting the performance “The Great Sinners”. An original adaptation made up of extracts from the best works of the great Russian writer, Fyodor Dostoyevsky: “Crime and Punishment”, “Demons”, “The Brothers Karamazov” by Giannis Chartodiplomenos and Constantinos Hadjis. 

 

The great sinners of these masterpieces, one after another, come face to face with their Truths, or, more correctly, with their Retribution. Raskolnikov, Stavrogin, Smerdyakov, and Ivan Karamazov confront their sins, coming face to face with their truths, self-defeating, destroying themselves, reaching the very depths of their own Existence. Porfyrus, Tyge and the Devil stand before them. The cast that portrays these characters is of young, talented actors from the Greek theatre.

 

Dostoyevsky’s sarcastic and demonic humor is the vessel in which we travel into this great battle, through a game of relationships and self-discovery but mainly through the “comedy” which is human existence.Where does this relentless journey end? In the discovery of God, or maybe in the discovery of Faith?

 

Adaptation / Translation: Giannis Chartodiplomenos – Constantinos Hadjis 

Direction / Lighting: Constantinos Hadjis

 

Performing: Manos Karatzogiannis, Thimios Koukios, Denis Makris, Alexandros Mavropoulos, Miltiadis Fiorentzis