The Underground Lovers

Underground Lovers, The (Les Amants du métro)

    Author: Jean Tardieu

    First Performance: 1952, Paris

    Published: 1954

    First English Translation: 1968

    Genre: Com. in 2 scenes; French prose

    Setting: Paris metro platform and train, c.1950

    Cast: 1m, 1f, extras

Two lovers come and go amidst passengers on the metro platform, some exchanging platitudes, two students discussing the Hero and Leander legend, foreigners speaking unintelligibly. He and She exchange loving sentiments: ‘I am nothing without you.’ ‘We are.’ ‘Say: we shall be.’ ‘We shall be.’ Soon after, they begin arguing: ‘You're no longer you!’ ‘Yes I am, I'm me!’ ‘No you're not!’ ‘It's you who aren't you!’ They eventually have a row, and She runs off in tears. He follows her, calling her by...

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