by Jean-Paul Sartre
Translated from the French by Kitty Black
[Starring] Bernard Lee, David McCallum, Susan Maryott
with John Westbrook, Redmond Phillips, Dilys Hamlett

[Photo caption] Susan Maryott as Jessica and Bernard Lee as Hoederer

Tonight's play, set in a Balkan state during the Second World War, is a triangle story with a difference. The three people Involved are Hugo. a young Intellectual; Hoederer, the strong party boss; and Hugo's pretty wife, Jessica. Although it has all the excitement of a spy-thriller, Crime Passionnel goes deep into the motives and behaviour of these three widely different characters when faced with the conflict between practical ability and political idealism. For Hugo, the over-sensitive intellectual, is given the task of assassinating one of the leaders of his own party and author Jean-Paul Sartre develops his theme against a background of mounting tension.
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