Karma: A Re-incarnation Play In Prologue, Epilogue & Three Acts

A fragile, fever‑ridden woman lies in a London drawing‑room, clutching a picture of ancient Egypt while her husband, a British agent, returns late from an urgent assignment. Their tense exchange hints at a deeper, almost mystical connection to the desert lands beyond their walls, a place that haunts her dreams and fuels her longing. The nurse and a calm doctor hover nearby, their practical concerns contrasting with the couple’s private obsession with a world far away.

The play then transports listeners to three distant eras—Old Kingdom Egypt, Classical Greece, and Renaissance Italy—where the same souls, unnamed but unmistakably bound, experience love, duty, and destiny across centuries. Each act explores how the echoes of a single relationship reverberate through time, shaping choices and confronting the inexorable pull of fate.

Returning to the present, the prologue’s uneasy atmosphere suggests that the ancient ties may still be unresolved, promising a thoughtful meditation on memory, reincarnation, and the thread that links past and present.