SECRET RAPTURE, THE

Original titleSECRET RAPTURE, THE
CategoryPlay
AgegroupAdults
Cast6 total (4 F and 2 M)
Variable cast sizeNo
RepresentationNordic representation
LanguagesDanish, Swedish
The children of light and darkness battle in this brilliant play. Gentle Isobel happily runs a small graphics design business with her husband until her sister Marion and her father’s young widow Katherine demand to be taken into the company. Katherine is a destructive drunk and Marion is a Tory M.P. with the heart of a computer. Isobel accepts capital to expand and her business becomes high-tech and impersonal. She ultimately walks away – from her business and her marriage – in this fable about the corruption of art and heart by a soulless, self-obsessed society. The contradictions and the anguish that motivates these characters is communicated with such wit and controlled passion that one hardly suspects the underlying, almost Christian morality, until the play’s final moments of surprising violence.