SuitabookPower and artistic authority
Leopold demands Zara’s total commitment, alternates praise with emotional breakdowns, humiliates actors and may damage careers while colleagues admire his brilliance.
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Amy Rose Capetta - Author
This is a dark theatrical mystery with a central same-sex romance. Its strongest interest lies in the tension between creative devotion and the harm caused when a celebrated director’s authority goes unchallenged.
Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to director Leopold Henneman, to play a dream role in Echo and Ariston, the Greek tragedy that taught her everything she knows about love. When the director asks Zara to promise that she will have no outside commitments, no distractions, it's easy to say yes. But are the deaths at the theater accidents, or murder, or a curse that always comes in threes? When assistant lighting director Eli Vasquez, a girl made of tattoos and abrupt laughs and every form of light, looks at Zara it's hard not to fall in love.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a dark theatrical mystery with a central same-sex romance. Its strongest interest lies in the tension between creative devotion and the harm caused when a celebrated director’s authority goes unchallenged.
Leopold demands Zara’s total commitment, alternates praise with emotional breakdowns, humiliates actors and may damage careers while colleagues admire his brilliance.
Zara falls for Eli while performing Echo and Ariston, a tragedy associated with Zara’s understanding of love.
Characters experience theatre as demanding, absorbing work involving rehearsals, lights, people and the satisfaction of creating a production.
Be aware of deaths in the theatre, possible murder, threats surrounding a supposed curse, emotional manipulation, humiliation and career sabotage.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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