The Madwoman of Chaillot

Madwoman of Chaillot, The (La Folle de Chaillot)

    Author: Jean Giraudoux

    First Performance: 1945, Paris

    Published: 1945

    First English Translation: 1949

    Genre: Com. in 2 acts; French prose

    Setting: A café and a cellar in the Chaillot Quarter of Paris, spring 1945

    Cast: 27m, 12f

Financiers meet in a café to discuss their latest moneymaking venture. Oil has been discovered beneath the streets of Paris, and they are preparing to wreck the city in order to exploit this hidden wealth. They are constantly distracted by the colourful poor people of the quarter and especially by a madwoman, who claims to be the Countess Aurelia. A Young Man is brought in half-drowned. He had been given the task of laying explosives to frighten the authorities into giving permission to drill for oil, but in...

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