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At his daughter’s wedding, innkeeper Mathias hears sleigh bells that recall a Polish Jew he murdered 15 years earlier. In a dream, he is tried for the murder and confesses the attack and disposal of the body. He dies of a heart attack.
Set in Alsace in 1833, the play follows Mathias, a burgomaster who years earlier robbed and murdered a Polish Jewish merchant to pay his mortgage. Haunted by guilt and visions of his victim, Mathias dreams that he is tried and condemned, then dies after waking and trying to remove an imaginary noose.
At his daughter’s wedding, innkeeper Mathias hears sleigh bells that recall a Polish Jew he murdered 15 years earlier. In a dream, he is tried for the murder and confesses the attack and disposal of the body. He dies of a heart attack.
Set in Alsace in 1833, the play follows Mathias, a burgomaster who years earlier robbed and murdered a Polish Jewish merchant to pay his mortgage. Haunted by guilt and visions of his victim, Mathias dreams that he is tried and condemned, then dies after waking and trying to remove an imaginary noose.