We Will Not Describe the Conversation

DANI – Is a massage therapist because she likes having peoples’ necks in her hands, and she likes that she chooses not to hurt them.

SONYA – Has something heavy in her bag. But it doesn’t weigh her down. It makes her feel strong.

ROSS – Latches onto ideas that he thinks explain why he is the way he is and justify his desires.

Author's Note: This play is inspired by a sentence in Crime and Punishment, a scene that Dostoyevsky chose not to write. In the novel, Raskolnikov, a struggling ex-student,commits a grisly murder: killing two elderly women with an axe. He later confesses his crime to his lover, Sonya, who in turn discusses his crime with his sister, Dunya. Readers don’t get to know much about this conversation between the two women though, for all the author writes is “We will not describe the conversation and the tears of the two girls, and how friendly they became.” This sentence became the inspiration for this play. The connection to Crime and Punishment stops here, as this play diverges greatly from the novel.