Thérèse Raquin

by Emile Zola
translated by Pip Broughton
directed by Tom Ross
June 20, 2003 - July 27, 2003

This is Emile Zola’s own dramatization of his famous novel, a sinister tale set among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Parisian society. The enigmatic Thérèse falls in love with her husband’s best friend, and the two embark upon a dangerous affair that leads to murder, revenge and retribution. Based upon actual events, this cornerstone of the naturalistic movement in the arts and a precursor to film noir and pulp fiction was hailed by London’s Time Out as “a mesmerizing drama of obsessive crime and passion.”