Elemente de recontextualizare spațio-temporală în piesa și spectacolul Crimă și pedeapsă de Mattias Andersson
Elements of Spatiotemporal Re-contextualization in Mattias Andersson's Play and Performance Crime and Punishment

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to indentify and analyze the elements of spatiotemporal re-contextualization in the play ”Crime and punishment” (”Brott och straff”) by Mattias Andersson, which premiered in 2007 at Backa Teater Gothenburg. The performance was a part of the big project ”Crime and punishment” wherewith Backa Teater inaugurated on 20th October 2007 its new headquarters in Norra Älvstranden, a harbor area of Gothenburg. The research work for this dramatization was performed during a study visit in Moscow and in Gothenburg, with reference groups consisting of young people with various backgrounds. After a thorough study of the play and the performance we remark to categories of elements of spatiotemporal re-contextualization: settings and props with contemporary global character which place the action today anywhere in the world – such as mobile phones, digital cameras, TV set, drugs – and specific elements inspired by the documentation visit in Moscow – the most important of them is a costume element: the cheap windbreaker jacket which the many and poor (including Raskolnikov) wear. Mattias Andersson uses in this performance, once again, the Brechtian concept of the estrangement effect.

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