UCL Drama Society - A Little Tragedy

UCL Drama Society presents

A Little Tragedy

Adapted and translated from Alexander Pushkin’s Little Tragedies, never before seen on the English stage, A Little Tragedy brings together four stories of obsession, love, greed, death and tragedy into one grand narrative that explores every layer of humanity. The demon Mephistopheles tries to finally take the soul of Doctor Faust through telling him three intertwining tragedies across ages, universes, and worlds. These are the little tragedies he tells...

Mozart and Salieri: Frustrated by the effortless meteoric success of his friend/rival/crush Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the composer Antonio Salieri, conspires to poison him after realising he would never achieve such heights. 

The Miserly Knight: The feud between Alber, a penniless knight, and his father, a Baron that hates him for his way of life, boils over into tragedy at the court of their Duke. 

The Stone Guest: The womanising libertine Don Juan returns to Madrid from exile, and goes on a doomed quest to seduce the widow of a man he killed, whose scorned spirit shows up to dinner. 

There’s a tragedy for everybody.