Jean-Claude Grumberg, a major contemporary playwright, paints a vitriolic portrait of a huddled, TV-gavaged couple. Madame and Monsieur see their contemporaries only through the prism of their screens, and conjure up their familiar boredom by arguing: one believes, the other doesn?t.
Jean-Claude Grumberg, a major contemporary playwright, paints a vitriolic portrait of a huddled, TV-gavaged couple. Madame and Monsieur see their contemporaries only through the prism of their screens, and conjure up their familiar boredom by arguing: one believes, the other doesn?t.
In this tragi-comic farce, Grumberg wryly sketches the societal signs of inter-society, fear of the other, dullness: and here we have two champions! It's sordid, and therefore hilarious.
In this tragi-comic farce, Grumberg wryly sketches the societal signs of inter-society, fear of the other, dullness: and here we have two champions! It's sordid, and therefore hilarious.
