The Empire Builders
Empire Builders, The (Les Bâtisseurs d'empire) Author: Boris Vian
First Performance: 1959, Paris
Published: 1959
First English Translation: 1967
Genre: Drama in 3 acts; French prose
Setting: An apartment building, France, mid-20th c.
Cast: 3m, 3f
A family comprising Father, Mother, their daughter Zénobie, and their maid Cruche, have been forced, like their Neighbour, to vacate the apartment below because of the threat emanating from a mysterious Noise and from the
Schmürz, a bleeding creature swathed in bandages. They refuse to investigate the source of the Noise, and only Zénobie treats the
Schmürz with any kindness. The others attempt to defeat it by brutally attacking it, only each time to flee to a new apartment higher up in the building, relentlessly pursued by...
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