Against the Night

By Évelyne de la Chenelière

Every evening at sunset, Bernard and Viviane gaze across their boundless estate maintained by J r mie, the ex-convict gardener. Their daughter L na returns after running away yet again, but the couple acts as if everything is normal. The scene replays in variations, shifting with the uncertainties of the night. Trapped in a loop of bourgeois malaise, L na and J r mie can only picture one escape: to murder Bernard and Viviane and burn everything to the ground.

Against the Night is a fractured, fevered descent into familial collapse and the erosion of identity. Evelyne de la Cheneli re's haunting tragicomedy conjures an absurdist dreamscape where language fabricates reality and everything is up for reinvention. Darkly funny and endlessly fascinating, Against the Night dares us to look into the darkness to see ourselves more clearly.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0369106105
• ISBN13: 9780369106100
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Length: 96 Pages