The Handmaid’s Tale
Author(s): Poul Ruders, libretto by Paul Bentley (based on the novel by Margaret Atwood)
Company: English National Opera
Set in a totalitarian state in which women, stripped of their identities and rights, are subjected to the whims of a patriarchal republic, this thought-provoking work magnifies the issues of state control and the fragility of freedom as heroine Offred struggles against the nightmare she finds herself in.