Directed by one of Russia’s master directors, Kama Ginkas and performed by Oksana Mysina, one of Russia’s most venerated actors, the explosive K.I. from Crime depicts the last living moments of Katerina Ivanovna (K.I.), a character drawn from the margins of Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” In Ginkas’ adaptation, K.I. performs to an audience of ‘guests’ at a memorial for her recently deceased husband. Penniless, she sees the encroaching despair his death will bring to her life and the lives of her children. The audience soon discovers that this “memorial” is not for her husband, it is for her own soul.

Performed entirely in Russian, without subtitles, Mysina’s K.I. is a spellbinding character in any language.