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The Possessed (play)

The Possessed (in French Les Possédés) is a play written by Albert Camus in 1959. The piece is a theatrical adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Possessed, later renamed Demons. Camus despised nihilism and viewed Dostoyevsky's work as a prophecy about nihilism's devastating effects. He directed a production of the play at the Théâtre Antoine in 1959, the year before he died, which he financed in part with the money he received with his Nobel Prize. It was a critical success as well as an artistic and technical tour de force: 33 actors, 4 hours long, 7 sets, 24 scenes. The walls could move sideways to reduce the size of each location and the whole stage rotated to allow for immediate set transformations. Camus put the painter and set decorator Mayo, who had already illustrated several of his novels (L'Etranger - 1948 Ed.), in charge of the demanding task of designing these multiple and complex theater sets

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The Possessed (1977 film)

The Possessed is a 1977 American television horror film directed by Jerry Thorpe, written by John Sacret Young, and starring James Farentino, Joan Hackett, Diana Scarwid, and Harrison Ford. It is about a priest who returns from the dead to battle satanic forces at an all-girls school. The film was shot on location at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1976.

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Kevin Leahy, an alcoholic Catholic priest who has strayed from his faith, crashes his car and is pronounced dead at the scene. As penance, he is sent back to Earth to fight evil as an exorcist, and returns to life. The Helen Page School, a Catholic all-girls college in Salem, Oregon is on the brink of graduation season, and are about to go coed the following semester. Ellen Sumner (Claudette Nevins), is a teacher at the school, where her daughter, Weezie, attends. One evening, the paper in Ellen's typewriter inexplicably bursts into flames.

In her dorm room, Lane (Diana Scarwid) with the help of Alex (Carol Jones), Celia (Dinah Manoff), and Marty (P.J. Soles), play a prank on Weezie by smearing ketchup and other liquids under her bedsheets. Louise Gelson (Joan Hackett), Ellen's sister and the headmistress of the college, enters the room, and instructs the girls to leave. Weezie returns to her dorm late, but Lane has left to search for her. Weezie witnesses the curtains in the room inexplicably burst into flames. Ms. Gelson does not believe Weezie's story, and insists the girls must have been smoking.