APSU Opera Theater
Penny Shumate, Director
Jacob Aaron Schnitzer, Music Director

In a fascinating tale of marriage and madness, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald are on the French Riviera in 1924. Scott, clouded by alcoholism and obsessed by finishing his painstaking work on The Great Gatsby, is jealous of Zelda’s supposed extramarital affair, while Zelda is emotionally smothered by the controlling Scott.

In a fit of pique, Scott locks Zelda in a bedroom, unleashing confrontations between visions of her younger and older selves.  Which Zelda is real?  Or is the entire scene a troubling dream about choices made, challenges unfulfilled and roads not taken?