Les Orphelins

This is the story, a tale, a tale, yes, or a fable, again, it's possible....
This is the story, "that time", the story of four men, four men and one woman... The four men on this side, and she elsewhere, as it were...
This is history too, an event, episode or chapter, yes, just that, chapter, paragraph...
The story, that day, of three young men and yet another, older one, their father, their forefather, or the old king of an imaginary country...
The story of three young men and an older one... and the woman, yes, the woman, at their side, elsewhere, so elsewhere and at the same time unable to leave them... the older one, "it's the logic of things", it's predictable, so predictable... the older one abandons them, dies runs away again... They stay there. What will become of them, where will they go?...
It's still, in the end, the story, "that time", of two younger ones, too young... and the woman, elsewhere and so close... and the woman, watching them as they try to escape at their own cost, unable, too late... It's the story of a possible escape, so very, very possible, that never happens.

Jean-Luc Lagarce