The Plague at Outliers Theatre Collective

The Plague is Albert Camus' story of living through a time of crisis and fighting back against despair. First published in 1947, the novel was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist "plague" that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' novel for the stage for our own dangerous times. Using just five actors, his frank and gripping new stage version uses Camus' original words to put chaos under the microscope and to find hope in the power of our common humanity.

Featuring: Hume Baugh (Cottard), Gary Brennan (Grand), Natalia Bushnik (Tarrou), Sean Jacklin (Rambert), Asha Vijayasingham (Dr Rieux)

Directed and Produced by: Tom McHale and Alessandro Simari

Stage Manager: Jenna Hsu

Lighting Designer: Elijah Bell

Estimated Run Time is 90 minutes, no intermission.

Content Notice: Sustained depictions of epidemic illness, death, quarrantine, and collective grief, including discussion of suicide, mass fatalities, medical triage, social breakdown, and the deaths of animals. Staging incorporates the sound of gunshots. The play explores themes of authoritarianism, isolation, separation, fear, xenophobia, and state violence.