Hell
Based on the novel by Henri Barbusse
Adapted by Lane Savadove & Ross Beschler
April 2011
The German Society Library
A mysterious and provocative foray into “Hell.”
EgoPo concluded its Theatre of Cruelty season with a dramatization of France's most scandalous novel, Hell (L’Enfer). Adapted from Henri Barbusse's novel by artistic director Lane Savadove and EgoPo regular Ross Beschler, this play followed an obsessed voyeur as he peers into the lives of those around him through a hole he discovers in the wall of his boarding house room.
Creative Team
Lane Savadove … Director
Tony Hostetter … Set Designer & Production Manager
Janus Stefanowicz … Costume Designer
Matt Sharp … Lighting & Sound Designer
Ren Manley … Video Design
Tom Fusco … Technical Director
Michael Chittenden … Stage Manager
Chris Bratek … Assistant Stage Manager
Alexander McCarty … Assistant Stage Manager
Cast
Ross Beschler
Mary Lee Bednarek
Allen Radway
Ed Swidey
Cindy Spitko
Sean Lally
Sara Yoko Howard
Sarah Rachel Schol
About Henri Barbusse
Henri Barbusse (17 May 1873 – 30 August 1935) was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist.
He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a neo-Naturalist novelist; in 1916, he published Under Fire, a novel about World War I based on his experience which is described as one of the earliest works of the Lost Generation movement or as the work which started it; the novel had a major impact on the later writers of the movement, namely on Ernest Hemingway and Erich Maria Remarque.
Barbusse is considered one of the important French writers of 1910–1939 who mingled the war memories with moral and political meditations.