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Set in fictional Illyria near the end of World War II, the play follows young Communist Hugo Barine, ordered to assassinate party leader Hoederer for negotiating a coalition. Told largely in flashback, it examines whether Hugo's act was driven by political conviction or personal jealousy.
Georges De Valera, a wanted swindler, evades arrest by convincing a right-wing newspaper editor that he is Nikita Nekrassov, a defected Soviet minister with secret information. As the paper exploits the story for anti-communist propaganda, De Valera’s imposture draws in the government, police and a rival journalist, while he and the journalist’s daughter develop an attachment.
Three deceased people—Joseph Garcin, Inèz Serrano, and Estelle Rigault—are confined together in a room in Hell. As they reveal the crimes and betrayals that brought them there, each becomes a tormentor to the others; even when the door opens, they choose to remain and continue their psychological struggle.
A one-act chamber opera based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit.
In a fictional European Communist party, idealist Hugo is sent to kill leader Hoederer but hesitates until he sees his wife Jessica in Hoederer's arms. This American adaptation shifts emphasis toward Hoederer and changes Jessica's relationship and motivation, while cuts reduce Hugo's characterization.
In a family of German industrialists, Johanna investigates why Franz, the elder son reported dead, has shut himself away for thirteen years. As the family confronts its Nazi-era history and Franz's crimes, he and his dying father meet to reckon with their responsibility for Germany's past.
Set in fictional Illyria near the end of World War II, the play follows young Communist Hugo Barine, ordered to assassinate party leader Hoederer for negotiating a coalition. Told largely in flashback, it examines whether Hugo's act was driven by political conviction or personal jealousy.
Georges De Valera, a wanted swindler, evades arrest by convincing a right-wing newspaper editor that he is Nikita Nekrassov, a defected Soviet minister with secret information. As the paper exploits the story for anti-communist propaganda, De Valera’s imposture draws in the government, police and a rival journalist, while he and the journalist’s daughter develop an attachment.
Three deceased people—Joseph Garcin, Inèz Serrano, and Estelle Rigault—are confined together in a room in Hell. As they reveal the crimes and betrayals that brought them there, each becomes a tormentor to the others; even when the door opens, they choose to remain and continue their psychological struggle.
A one-act chamber opera based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit.
In a fictional European Communist party, idealist Hugo is sent to kill leader Hoederer but hesitates until he sees his wife Jessica in Hoederer's arms. This American adaptation shifts emphasis toward Hoederer and changes Jessica's relationship and motivation, while cuts reduce Hugo's characterization.
In a family of German industrialists, Johanna investigates why Franz, the elder son reported dead, has shut himself away for thirteen years. As the family confronts its Nazi-era history and Franz's crimes, he and his dying father meet to reckon with their responsibility for Germany's past.
During the German Peasants' War, warlord Goetz tests the possibility of goodness, changing from a vicious war criminal toward noble deeds; during the siege of Worms, he chooses not to massacre the town's citizens.
In Sartre's retelling of the Electra myth, Orestes and Electra confront the guilt-ridden people of Argos and avenge Agamemnon by killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. Orestes rejects Zeus's demand for repentance and leaves the city, asserting human freedom and responsibility.
Lizzie, a white prostitute in the American South, refuses to falsely accuse a Black man who defended her from white attackers on a train. A senator and his son pressure her to sign a false statement to protect their relative, while a lynch mob searches for the accused man.