Semi-Monde

About the show

In the public rooms of a Paris hotel from 1925 to 1927, a changing group of socialites engage in rendezvous, affairs, quarrels and reconciliations. The play includes queer couples and exposes hypocrisy and sexual repression amid its decadent social world. In the second act, entangled affairs culminate in a shooting before the turmoil settles into a restoration of heterosexual order.