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Description for Therese Raquin
Paperback. A story of lust, madness and destruction set within the backstreets of Paris. Based on Emile Zola's classic novel. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 132.
A story of lust, madness and destruction set in the backstreets of Paris. Based on Emile Zola's classic novel.
The beautiful but doomed heroine is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. Every Thursday evening she watches her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin, play dominoes... until one day her husband brings along an old friend, the alluring and athletic Laurent. As Laurent and Thérèse embark on an illicit affair, a turbulent passion is unleashed that drives them ultimately to violence and murder.
Helen Edmundson's sensuous adaptation of Thérèse Raquin premiered at the Theatre Royal, Bath, in ... Read more
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Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848424111
SKU
V9781848424111
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Émile Zola
Émile Zola (1840–1902) was a French writer, the most well-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. Helen Edmundson’s first play, Flying, was presented at the National Theatre Studio in 1990. In 1992, she adapted Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina for Shared Experience, for whom she also adapted The ... Read more
Reviews for Therese Raquin
'[A] compelling, poetic and fleet adaptation… riveting'
The Times
'Period noir, a psychological thriller that will pin you to your seat as surely as a Hitchcock film'
Daily Mail
'Highly intelligent and horribly compelling'
Independent
'A superb piece of work… funny, charged with erotic fissure and has a spine tingling eeriness'
WhatsOnStage
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The Times
'Period noir, a psychological thriller that will pin you to your seat as surely as a Hitchcock film'
Daily Mail
'Highly intelligent and horribly compelling'
Independent
'A superb piece of work… funny, charged with erotic fissure and has a spine tingling eeriness'
WhatsOnStage
... Read more