PASSION

Adapted from Ettore Scola’s 1981 film Passione d’Amore, Passion is one of Stephen Sondheim’s most emotional works. Intimate, raw, erotic and dark, it explores universal, yet often unspoken, truths.

At a remote military outpost in 1863 Italy, a handsome army captain, Giorgio, separated from his beautiful – but married – mistress, Clara, is forced to re-evaluate his beliefs about love when he becomes the object of the obsessive, unrelenting passions of Fosca, his Colonel’s plain, sickly cousin.