JEAN ANOUILH AT THE NEW END: TWO-FOR-ONE OFFER

The Independent - London | January 1, 1996 | Copyright

The French playwright Jean Anouilh divided his early work into "pink" and "black" depending on whether the plays had happy endings. Leocadia, a light and fluffy study of fantasy set in a fairy-tale world, is certainly one of the pieces roses. The play laughs at the fanciful delusions of a prince determined to live only inside the memory of a distant three-day love-affair (right). Leocadia, his beloved, was an opera singer who subsisted (not for long) on a diet of champagne, orchids and passion. The difficulty of distinguishing between reality and illusion was a recurring theme in Anouilh's ...

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