Emile Zola’s own stage adaptation of his taut, psychological thriller. An intense story of adultery, murder and revenge, streaked with social satire, in a translation by Pip Broughton.
Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Emile Zola’s dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere ‘human beasts’ who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period-piece. Therese Raquin stands as a key early manifesto of the French Naturalist movement, of which Zola was the founding father. Even today, this novel has lost none of its power to shock. It proved a great success in this translation by Pip Broughton when it was premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse and later revived at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon.
"Zolas steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution" - City Limits
"Broughtons fine translation confirms this as a mesmerising drama of obsessive crime and passion committed in stultifying ambience of the Paris petite bourgeoisie" - Time Out
"Zolas steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution" - City Limits
"Broughtons fine translation confirms this as a mesmerising drama of obsessive crime and passion committed in stultifying ambience of the Paris petite bourgeoisie" - Time Out
"Zolas steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution" - City Limits
"Broughtons fine translation confirms this as a mesmerising drama of obsessive crime and passion committed in stultifying ambience of the Paris petite bourgeoisie" - Time Out
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‘Zola’s steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution’ -- City Limits
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‘Broughton’s fine translation confirms this as a mesmerising drama of obsessive crime and passion committed in stultifying ambience of the Paris petite bourgeoisie’ Time Out
" - Time Out