Embedded [2001]
(in Ludwig and Mae: Three Plays by Louis-Patrick Leroux, Talonbooks, 2009)
Original
Résumé A couple is in bed, Mae and Ludwig. She is leaving him, tomorrow morning, after her shower, and after her cup of coffee. In the time being they are dissecting their love and tormenting one another. The tension rises. When a delivery
man from a Chinese restaurant arrives, the game they are playing takes a dangerous and perverse turn. Extrait « LUDWIG: I WANT you to give yourselves to each other. / MAE: Just like that? Hop to it! In out in out in out. No flirting. No foreplay, no romance. / LUDWIG: Well, it's a carnal desire, without emotional ties. / MAE: What do you know? / LUDWIG: You want me to believe you love your Chinese Delivery Guy? (To the Delivery Guy.) No offense, eh? » Revue de presse "The writing is brilliant: it's Who's Afraid Virginia Woolf rewritten by Marivaux." André Girourd, Le Voyageur, Sudbury |