Pantagleize

Pantagleize

    Author: Michel de Ghelderode

    First Performance: 1930, Saint-Trond, Belgium

    Published: 1934

    First English Translation: 1960

    Genre: Pol. com. in 3 acts and epilogue; Flemish prose

    Setting: A European city, in an indeterminate period between two wars

    Cast: 12m, 1f, extras

Pantagleize is by his own admission a complete nonentity who writes for a fashion magazine. On his 40th birthday he decides to greet people with ‘What a lovely day!’ – unaware that this is the signal for the planned uprising of the Liberals to begin. Observed by a plain-clothes policeman, revolutionaries are gathered in a café, where Pantagleize goes to take coffee. Greeting everyone with his chosen phrase, Pantagleize sparks off the revolution and is hailed as their leader. One revolutionary, a Jewess,...

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