Indiscretions | Themes
Perverted Love
Indiscretions explores the chaos and confusion of destructive family relationships in 1930s Paris. In his introduction to Jeremy Sams’s translation of the play, Simon Callow quotes Cocteau as writing in the program of the original production: “Here . . . is the Rolls-Royce of families, uncomfortable and ruinous.” In the play, Leo comments:
this family is a wreck, a hopeless, hypocritical, middleclass mess, hanging on desperately to its false values as it rolls inexorably to its inevitable doom, like some dreadful...
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