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In this comedy of manners, unscrupulous businessman Isidore Lechat seeks money and power through his children's lives, but he cannot command death or love: his son dies and his daughter rejects the marriage he arranged.
An English-language stage adaptation of Mirbeau's comedy of manners about businessman Isidore Lechat, whose pursuit of money and power puts his family at risk.
Senator and charity founder Baron Courtin embezzles money from the institution he leads, risking ruin and prison. He escapes punishment through help from his wife's former lover, who extracts money from the girls at the charity, and through a political bargain that secures the baron's silence.
During a workers' strike, the employer opposes the strikers and the army violently crushes the movement; the tragedy ends with the deaths of the strikers, including their leader Jean Roule and his pregnant lover Madeleine.
In this comedy of manners, unscrupulous businessman Isidore Lechat seeks money and power through his children's lives, but he cannot command death or love: his son dies and his daughter rejects the marriage he arranged.
An English-language stage adaptation of Mirbeau's comedy of manners about businessman Isidore Lechat, whose pursuit of money and power puts his family at risk.
Senator and charity founder Baron Courtin embezzles money from the institution he leads, risking ruin and prison. He escapes punishment through help from his wife's former lover, who extracts money from the girls at the charity, and through a political bargain that secures the baron's silence.
During a workers' strike, the employer opposes the strikers and the army violently crushes the movement; the tragedy ends with the deaths of the strikers, including their leader Jean Roule and his pregnant lover Madeleine.