Stone Ridge filmmaker Robert Clem's "The Silencer" is an original screenplay loosely adapted from Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, updated to the present. The Rosendale Theater is producing a staged reading of the script, which follows the story of an undocumented immigrant Carlos Reynaldo, who works for the family of 25 year-old Kurt Roddy. Reynaldo is abducted by a company helping round up so-called “subversives.” Roddy finds the company’s president and shoots him dead with a homemade weapon he calls the “Silencer.” Roddy’s soulmate Sonia tries to stop him and afterward presses him to confess, both to explain why he committed the murder and to absolve Reynaldo’s son, Raz, whom the police have charged with the crime.
