George Costigan returns to Liverpool in a rare new stage adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece Crime and Punishment at the Liverpool Playhouse.
He will play detective Porfiry whose suspicions about a double murder lead him to the play’s main protagonist, student Raskolnikov, played by Adam Best. This new adaptation by Chris Hannan is directed by Glasgow Citizens Theatre Artistic Director Dominic Hill and will be at the Playhouse from October 1-19.
Costigan, who was a member of the of the Everyman company from 1974 to 1982, returns to the Liverpool stage for the first time since The Odd Couple at the Playhouse in 2005.
Adam Best has been a regular cast member in Holby City and his stage credits include The Woman in Black and Public Enemy.
A psychological thriller conceived during Dostoyevsky's Siberian prison term, Crime and Punishment gets inside the mind of starving, destitute student Raskolnikov who commits a brutal double murder.
Dominic Hill’s raw new production will draw inspiration from his own experience working in a raucous Russian theatre.