Les Règles du savoir-vivre dans la société moderne

"Being born isn't complicated. Dying is easy. Living, between these two events, is not necessarily impossible. It's just a matter of following the rules and applying the principles to get by."

Abstracting from Baroness Staffe's 1889 manual of savoir-vivre, author Jean-Luc Lagarce brings the world of yesteryear to life in the form of a grand epic monologue. In a scathing version, he reveals the disruption of protocols and gives us a perspective on the diffuse, chaotic and multidimensional aspect of today's mutations.

A journey through the essential episodes of a life set like music paper that, underneath the fussy score, inadvertently pushes the pawns out of the melody.