Thérèse Raquin
by Émile Zola. Music by Craig Adams. Book and Lyrics by Nona Shepphard.
by Émile Zola. Music by Craig Adams. Book and Lyrics by Nona Shepphard.
Thérèse Raquin is a musical adaptation of the classic French novel about a young woman's passionate affair that transforms her life and leads to unforeseen consequences.
About The Play
About The Play
TRANSFERS TO
Park Theatre, Park200, Clifton Terrace, London N4 3JP
30 July – 24 August 2014
Tuesday to Saturday evenings at 7.30pm
Saturday and Sunday matinees at 3.00pm
Tickets: £19.50, £16 (Concessions), £15 (Previews), £12 (Tuesdays for Residents with North London postcodes and Under 25s)
www.parktheatre.co.uk | 02078706876
Following the sell-out success of its workshop as part of Vibrant 2012 – A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, and as part of the Finborough Theatre’s acclaimed Celebrating British Music Theatre series, the world premiere of a new musical adaptation of the classic French novel Thérèse Raquin.
1860s Paris. In a small dusty haberdasher’s shop near the Seine in the dank, narrow Passage du Pont Neuf, the young and beautiful Thérèse Raquin is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille.
While her husband is out all day working, Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and – every Thursday evening – watching her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin, play dominoes with an eclectic group of ne’er-do-wells.
Until the Thursday evening that her husband Camille brings an old friend to the party – the alluring Laurent – and she embarks on an illicit affair that leads Thérèse to abandon all her inhibitions and loyalties as their brutal and overwhelming passion overturns both their lives and has results that nobody could have foreseen…
In keeping with the innovative and challenging nature of the original work, this radical new musical adaptation uses music and lyrics to heighten and distil the underlying themes, featuring a company of twelve actors, playing the main roles of Therese, Laurent, Camille and Madame Raquin, as well as their Thursday night domino playing companions and a watchful and distrustful chorus.