ONE-ACT (~30 Minutes) - Judge Earl Robb invites his sister Doreen to his isolated estate on a stormy evening, ostensibly for tea. But as thunder rolls and the drawing room door locks behind her, Doreen realizes she's become an unwitting subject in her brother's twisted experiment. Haunted by a case involving a child murderer, Earl has become obsessed with a single question: Can anyone commit evil?

What begins as a philosophical debate escalates into psychological warfare as Earl tests the limits of his own capacity for cruelty—with his beloved sister as his victim. A taut two-hander that builds to a shocking reversal, Vespers examines the nature of evil, the fragility of trust, and what we're truly capable of when pushed to our limits.