Tosca Tickets

Heartbeat's new production of Tosca translates Puccini's masterpiece of love and revolution from Rome's 1800 police state to the modern-day world of religious authoritarian regimes. This brand new co-adaptation by Iranian-American director Shadi G. and Heartbeat Artistic Director Jacob Ashworth focuses on a troupe of singer activists living in an oppressive dictatorship who have decided that tonight they will risk everything to perform the uncensored Tosca. They race to tell their whole story before the authoritarian forces lurking in the wings press in. This radical adaptation asks what it means to make art where freedom of expression does not exist — where even love is banned from the stage.