The play, written by Christopher Marlowe describes the nightmarish night of St. Bartholomew, where Catholics slaughtered 3,000 Huguenots.

The unconventional spatial arrangement places the audience around a table where the French aristocrats eat after bulimia and uses the ex-audience staircase as an evocative set element where the massacre takes place. Crowds of actors run galloping into the room and run in terror to the empty stands, as the orientation of the show is upside down to the usual. Spectators and actors are on the same level on stage, under the gaze of an invisible audience. The dead Huguenots fill the vacancies of the tiers, the curtain opens and close and an illusion of a posthumous judgment falls on actors and the audience.

The costumes are influenced by the era. The daring choice of transparent tops in women's suits is the modern day translation of the provocative bust of the era. The intense make-up unifies the actors of the main cast giving the audience the feeling that they are wearing a mask. The 42 actors who enter the last scene, that of St. Bartholomew's night, wear modern costumes, without make-up and set up with their movement and bodies an anthology scene, a tableau of romance that gradually comes to life before the eyes of the audience.