Bizet’s Locket

One-Act

Searching in France for her birth parents, a woman

begins a fiery relationship with a French Resistance leader who may be concealing a criminal past. 

Production

Playwrights Forum, Memphis

Public Presentations

  • Playwrights Festival of TheatreWorks
  • New Voices Playwrights Festival
  • Red Barn Theatre / FL
  • Playwrights’ Kitchen Ensemble
  • Springboard Series / JCC Manhattan / NYC

Awards

  • Finalist at the National Playwrights Conference/Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
  • Winner of the Paul Green Playwrights Prize
  • Winner of the Founder’s Award Contest
  • Key West Theatre Festival

Bizet’s Locket (2m, 3f)

Drama 3f, 2m

Review

With the opening of Bizet’s Locket, Playwright’s Forum, a company dedicated solely to the development of original scripts, has launched its finest effort this season. The story follows Annette, a young woman of the ’60s who has returned to France to track down her birth parents. She enlists the aid of Pierre, a dubious war-hero-turned-cop who helped her adoptive parents smuggle her out of Europe during WWII and now seems to go out of his way to throw Annette off the scent…The script… is compelling and the question of whether or not Pierre is actually a murderous, in-the-closet Nazi provides plenty of intrigue.

Chris Davis

MEMPHIS FLYER