Reglas, usos y costumbres en la sociedad moderna

Although the writings of this playwright, one of the most widely performed contemporary authors in France, tend to distill melancholy, this play adopts a comic style to rewrite, with a healthy dose of irony, a manual of good manners written in the late 19th century. The book in question is Baroness Staffe's Les règles du savoir vivre dans la société contemporaine, which was a veritable benchmark of good manners in its day. From this material, Lagarce constructs a monologue in which he formulates a harsh critique of a society full of regulations that condemns us to stifling our own existences. He does so through the character of a teacher who offers us her lessons on how to cope with life's major events