Victor

Victor (Victor ou Les Enfants au pouvoir)

    AT: Children Take Over

    A: Roger Vitrac

    First Performance: 1928, Paris

    Published: 1946

    First English Translation: None known

    Genre: Drama in 3 acts; French prose

    Setting: The Paumelles' apartment, Paris, 1909

    Cast: 5m, 7f

Victor Paumelle is a precocious, obnoxious boy of 5 foot 9 celebrating his ninth birthday. He makes indecent proposals to the maid and blames her for breaking an expensive vase that he deliberately smashed. His 6-year-old friend Esther tells him that his father Charles and her mother Thérèse are having an affair. When the parents arrive, Victor says that Esther broke the vase, and her mother strikes her. Eventually, all the guests assemble for the birthday party, including a general and Esther's unhinged father, who...

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