Written by Paul F. Saba, Esq.

Inspired by real-life events, Privileged Communications explores the consequences of unremedied wrongs, the law’s response, and the power of words that remain unspoken.

Privileged Communications is not a retelling of a famous theft—it is something far more dangerous. A work of imagination that moves beyond a single crime into the shifting terrain of Crime itself. Because once the law is compromised, everything is.

As the lines between duty and desire begin to blur, the play asks unsettling questions:
What is justice when truth is negotiable?
What is innocence when silence becomes complicity?
And what do we choose to protect—our clients, our conscience, or ourselves?

This is a world where good and evil are not opposites, but reflections, and where every choice carries a cost. The law promises clarity. The human heart does not.

At its core, Privileged Communications is a meditation on “poetic truth”—that elusive space where facts fall away and something deeper, more unsettling, takes hold. It is not explained. It is felt. A play about a crime. About good and evil. About the truths we cannot quite name