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Three prisoners share a cell: Green-Eyes awaits execution for murder, while Maurice and Lefranc serve lesser sentences and compete for his attention. Lefranc’s jealousy and desire to join Green-Eyes’s solitude culminate in his strangling Maurice.
In an upscale brothel during a street revolution, patrons perform as a bishop, judge, and general. After the uprising kills the regime's leaders, the Queen's envoy uses these staged identities in an effort to restore authority, while the brothel's Chief of Police seeks a public image of power.
A review of the Theatre Royal Stratford East production (2007) states:
Sisters and housemaids Claire and Solange take turns impersonating their absent mistress, Madame, in a ritual of domination and revenge. After their attempt to implicate Monsieur and drug Madame fails, they enact the murder in their role-play, with Claire ultimately drinking the tea herself.
In a stylized series of seventeen episodes set in an unspecified Arab land, an insurrection confronts a blundering colonial power. Saïd, a poor social outcast who betrays the rebels, links the non-narrative scenes. Movable screens serve as symbolic barriers and as visible stage properties, shifting the performance’s images of war and authority.
Three prisoners share a cell: Green-Eyes awaits execution for murder, while Maurice and Lefranc serve lesser sentences and compete for his attention. Lefranc’s jealousy and desire to join Green-Eyes’s solitude culminate in his strangling Maurice.
In an upscale brothel during a street revolution, patrons perform as a bishop, judge, and general. After the uprising kills the regime's leaders, the Queen's envoy uses these staged identities in an effort to restore authority, while the brothel's Chief of Police seeks a public image of power.
A review of the Theatre Royal Stratford East production (2007) states:
Sisters and housemaids Claire and Solange take turns impersonating their absent mistress, Madame, in a ritual of domination and revenge. After their attempt to implicate Monsieur and drug Madame fails, they enact the murder in their role-play, with Claire ultimately drinking the tea herself.
In a stylized series of seventeen episodes set in an unspecified Arab land, an insurrection confronts a blundering colonial power. Saïd, a poor social outcast who betrays the rebels, links the non-narrative scenes. Movable screens serve as symbolic barriers and as visible stage properties, shifting the performance’s images of war and authority.