Here is a very representative part of the universe of Jean Anouilh, both fun, entertaining, full of lightness in appearance and yet full of depth and dune certain gravity. A reflection of our world, unchanging behaviors of human nature, that one can easily qualify comedy.
The author deftly handles to, as the usual style that characterizes it, that irony, behind the lines with humor, reflects many truths.
Jean Anouilh mocks the bourgeois world, the falsity of appearance, small and cowardly compromises, but also male-female relationships, couples worn by time, adulterers. And always the presence of Letre young, pure heart, inaccessible, sometimes victim of innocence facing the cruelty of human relationships, but retains its purity, while others of the same age sarrangent already too corrupt world to which they add their complacency.
And each will play its role. For staging dune play within the play ("The Double Inconsistency" Marivaux) to here (as in The Cave).
The opportunity to project each in a fictitious world that will reflect the aspirations of each character.
And one of the secrets of the theater, according to Jean Anouilh, may be contained in this sentence spoken by one of the characters in milk II: "This is very nice life, but it didnt form. Art is intended to give him a precise and make all possible tricks truer than true. "
This is how the character of the count goes up the room, taking as a director of genius scene is played each of his players to our delight, at rehearsal, equating to their character, ironically on the Some, painting a very loyal and uncompromising portrait of himself and drawing a praise this be pure and genuine heart that he would so sattacher love, without wanting to distort.
And later and later? It is well worth a read, discovery. I can not unveil all the very substance.
Large and small baseness, perfidy which are sometimes able some women (but not only) between them, and always this constant of the human tragedy, where evolution seems like romantic relationships registered in the genes, almost ineluctably, with consequences that can sometimes cause (Jean Anouilh was not a great optimist). And the continuity of the human mind, with this painting of constant features of Letre from childhood to adulthood, although in other appearances, it is this infernal machine that guides man towards his tragic fate.
That's all that lon Anouilh found here.
Yes, a "brilliant" part (although this is the classification to which it belongs in LOEUVRE the great master of theater.
