The Rehearsal

Rehearsal, The (La Répétition, ou L'Amour puni)

    Author: Jean Anouilh

    First Performance: 1950, Paris

    Published: 1950

    First English Translation: 1958

    Genre: Romantic com. in 5 acts; French prose

    Setting: A salon and an attic room in an 18th-c. chateau, France, c.1950

    Cast: 5m, 3f

The Count (‘Tiger’), a man who realizes that ‘futility must be taken quite seriously’, has inherited a chateau, on condition that he stays one month every year and provides a home for 12 orphans. In order to make this sojourn bearable, he and his wife Éliane decide to stage Marivaux's The Double Inconstancy, and are already wearing their 18th-century costumes. To play the other parts, he has invited his long-suffering mistress Hortense, his friend the womanizer Héro, his wife's...

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