Devils of Loudun, The

DZIECI Productions presents a stage adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s The Devils of Loudun. The play adapted and directed by Matt Miller centers around a group of 17th century Ursuline nuns who, feigning madness, were officially declared possessed and forced to undergo public exorcism. In need of a scapegoat, blame for the nuns behavior was placed on a cavalier and a charismatic priest, Urbain Grandier. Guilty of sins of the flesh but not the devil, the priest subsequently imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately martyred.