I Remember Sky

on Severance, Evening Primrose, and (in)voluntary confinement

As many of us count down the days until Severance’s season two finale, another story of entrapment and escape beckons from the past. Long before the hit Apple TV+ show trapped its workers in an endless labyrinth of fluorescent-lit corridors, Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman imagined a different kind of imprisonment in their 1966 made-for-television mu…