Edouard Vuillard, Staged to Perfection; The National Gallery Raises the Curtain on the French Painter's Consummate Theatricality From: The Washington Post | Date: January 19, 2003| Author: Blake Gopnik | Copyright 2003 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Act 1, Scene 1: Morning. The curtain rises on a brightly papered bourgeois bedroom, sparsely furnished: A bed, a folding screen, two comfortable chairs. Three women -- Grandmother, Mother and Young Bride -- are busy preparing it for the approaching wedding night. The bride delivers her first lines to the audience.

Act 2, Scene 1: Afternoon. A bachelor's studio, bare except for a camp-bed and a clothes-hook -- and a woman's parasol abandoned in one corner. A raffish young man sits on th...

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