This July, Theatre Works proudly brings Nadia Tass’s production of acclaimed playwright Heather McDonald’s Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity to the stage, a haunting and urgent production that interrogates the cost of survival and the endurance of art in the face of devastation.

Set within the crumbling walls of a war-ravaged museum turned makeshift prison, the story follows three women forced into an uneasy alliance: a soldier hardened by violence, a nurse guarding deep secrets, and an art restorer desperately fighting to preserve the last remnants of beauty.

Directed by the legendary Nadia Tass, Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity is a tense, poetic, and unflinching examination of what endures when everything else is lost. In a world once again torn by conflict and division, it asks a powerfully relevant question: “When history is erased, who will remember what made us human?”