La Cagnotte

La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, center of the World and its inhabitants, Masters of the Universe. A fire department commander, a blond, dull young notary, a tax collector, a pharmacist, a farmer and the farmer's son again, dreaming of becoming a waiter, a fine and noble ambition. Unchanging old maids and pale, uninteresting young girls. Foolish fathers who crush their children with their own principles. Thieving, lying, party-going sons who eat and drink their inheritance in advance. Godelureaux and gandins, pretentious servants and narrow-minded civil servants. And Miranda, the Sensitive, who we don't see but imagine. The police, order, common sense and the right for oneself, as the only virtue, in the same ramshackle dance, a hilarious and black saraband of masks, grimaces and clowns.

Jean-Luc Lagarce