Past shows by Lady Margaret Players

• Huis Clos

  February 2004
  Sartre's intense vision of hell: no fire, no demons no torture devises. Hell is...other people. Three people meet in hell. Initially they try to hide from each other what brought them there. But they cannot live together without penetrating each others' intimate spheres, without forcing each other to confess who they had been and what they had done. No one is allowed to keep his secret and no one is spared the humiliation of being recognised for who he is. And yet: the more they are being hurt and the more their lives become hell, the more they become bound to each other. The play thrives on the dense, claustrophobic and yet erotic tension between the characters. We will try to portray their anguish, violence and passion in a way that evokes the audience's passions as well as captivating their intellect.

• Andorra

  October 2003
  Andorra is the story of Andri, the adopted child of an Andorran school-teacher, whom everybody including himself believes is a Jew. Andri's life begins to fall apart when the Andorrans are invaded by their fiercely anti-Semitic neighbours, the Blacks; his countrymen, seeking a scapegoat, turn on him. In the conflict that follows, Andri is forced into confronting his own identity in a struggle with hatred, despair and love which is doomed to fail. As Max Frisch insisted, Andorra is nothing to do with the state of the same name, nor with any country, but a vision of violence, bigotry and tragedy that could occur anywhere. This production stays faithful to his ideals, refusing to moralise and exposing the brutality that can lie so easily under a thin veneer of bourgeois respectability.

• Phedre

  June 2003