Inspirada en el mite dAntígona, lobra més cèlebre de Jean Anouilh subverteix els codis de la tragèdia homònima de Sòfocles. Abandona el lirisme majestuós i laura atàvica dels person...
A youth encounters a girl who is delivering flowers to his celebrated diva mother. They fall in love. The youth leaves for war and the diva brings the young wife into the theatre where she is dazzled by the lustre and social gaiety. She embraces it with...
Now retired, the General tries to keep old age at bay by dallying with every available pretty woman. His wife Emily, a determined invalid, perpetually complains of her husbandâs peccadilloes. Seventeen years ago, as they danced to the...
Jean Anouilh's sharp and witty new play, which enjoyed a season at the Queen's Theatre, London, centres around the ageing, gout-stricken and passe playwright Leon Saint-Pe, as he struggles manfully to being a new play, provisionally entitled Les...
The celebrated play that draws from historical events in the Norman conquest of England to create a profound portrait of a man's soulâand a transcendent vision of the human spirit
Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era with his innovative dramas, which exploit fantasy, tragic passion, scenic poetry and cosmic leaps in time and space. Anti...
Traveller Without Luggage is an intense and bittersweet drama of family, identity and redemption, written in 1936 by Jean Anouilh, and translated by John Whiting. A man is found in 1918 on a railway siding, having come off a train loaded with returning...