Lost Illusions will play for at least a week at the Orinda Theatre, and will open on August 27th at the Jarvis Conservatory. Please check back for specific showtimes at the Orinda Theatre on the IFS website. 

"SYNOPSIS: Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, is madly in love with the baroness Louise de Bargeton. The risk of scandal forces them to flee to Paris where they hope to live and love freely. Lucien soon finds rejection and loses the baroness’s support. He finds himself alone, penniless, hungry, and humiliated until the day he seeks revenge by writing controversial – yet banal – articles. Inside the Paris he so coveted, he finds a cynical world where everything – and everyone – can be bought and sold. Can he find his way and remain faithful to his hopes and dreams…?

Adapted from Balzac’s early-19th-century novel 'Lost Illusions'."