Electric Dolls

Electric Dolls (La donna è mobile; Elettricità (sessuale); Fantocci elettrici)

    Alternative Title: Poupées électriques; Electric Puppets

    Author: F. T. Marinetti

    First Performance: 1909, Paris (as Poupées électriques); 1926, Turin (as La donna è mobile)

    Published: 1909 in French; 1926 in Italian

    First English Translation: None known

    Genre: Drama in 3 acts; French prose

    Setting: A seaside resort in the south of France, 1900s

    Cast: 7m, 6f, 2 robots (1m, 1f), extras

Count Paul de Rozières, a young naval officer on shore leave, flirts with women in a dance hall, much to the distress of his cousin Juliette, who loves him passionately, and to the annoyance of his rich American friend John Wilson, to whose wife Mary Paul is also paying court....

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