Thérèse Raquin
Play Description
The story of a young woman forced into an unhappy marriage to her dull, sickly cousin and smothered by her overbearing aunt. When her husband’s childhood friend enters her life, it leads Thérèse into a torrid affair that sets her spirit free for the first time but with shattering consequences. Steeped in the atmosphere of 19th-century France with a darkly rich foreboding.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
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Press Quotes
“… Zola allows no rest from the pervasive gloom — and neither does Neal Bell in his ambitious, intelligent adaptation. Bell stimulates both our voyeurism and our moral sensibilities, and he honors Zola’s exquisite sense of cultural detail …” —Carol Burbank, Chicago Reader
“Neal Bell’s exciting new adaptation, from the novel, keeps the grit and erotic animality, but throws out the cumbersome apparatus, letting the sordid story breathe and compressing it into a series of tight, poetically written short scenes, using the grotesque tiny details to imply feelings and situations in vivid shorthand: Naturalism as haiku.” —Michael Feingold, The Village Voice
“Naturalism and expressionism collide with shattering effectiveness in THÉRÈSE RAQUIN. Emile Zola’s seminal work of naturalistic fiction caused an international scandal when published in 1867. Zola’s blunt, unprettified representation of the most sordid elements of life — infidelity, murder, madness and suicide — seemed revolutionary in the context of his time. Especially remarkable was Zola’s gritty portrayal of his eponymous central character Therese, a brilliantly radical departure from the simpering female prototypes of Victorian convention. Playwright Neal Bell’s expressionistic adaptation of Zola’s masterwork is both allusive and bold. Bell, who understands that less is more, tersely renders a psychological suspense story that keeps us on the edge of our seats.” —F Kathleen Foley, The Los Angeles Times
Book Information
Publisher | BPPI |
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Publication Date | 2/1/2016 |
Pages | 88 |
ISBN | 9780881455472 |
Special Notes
If original stage producers credits appear in bold below, all licensees are required to include them in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:
Originally produced professionally at The Williamstown Theater Festival, MA
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by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
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