Strauss and Pesant (and Rosa)
[1975]
Traducteur(s) Aviva Ravel (Auteur féminin) Nombre de personnages 3 Personnage(s), 1 Femme(s), 2 Homme(s), 3 Acteur(s) |  |
Résumé
Strauss and Pesant takes a symbolic look at women's lot in a society where there is collusion between State and Church. In their attitudes and relationship with Rosa, the two male characters, Joseph-Albert Strauss, police captain, and His Excellency Emilien Pesant, Bishop, illustrate how the institutions they embody exercise their misogynous power over women's lives.
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- Décor: SET AND PROPS:
A double living room, serves as a bedroom.
Three doors: entrances to another room, kitchen and bathroom.
Television.
Lazy Boy with plastic cover.
Water basin, pitcher, and other items for the sick-room.
Crucifix, photographs taken at policemen's concention, graduation and fraternity photographs.
Large oil portrait of Strauss.
A dresser. On the dresser: 27 extiguished vigil lamps.
COSTUMES:
Strauss wears his policemen's uniform.
Pesant is dressed as a Bishop.
Rosa wears housedress.
- Caractéristiques des personnages: J.A. (Joseph-Albert Strauss). Police Captain, age 66
EMILIEN (Monseigneur Emilien Pesant). Bishop, age 70
ROSA (Rosa Strauss). The Policeman's Wife, age 68
Extrait
« JOSEPH-ALBERT: It's impossible. | I can't be without a woman. | My laundry's dirty. The house's dirty. | The bathtub's dirty. | I've nothin' to eat, | no one t'talk t'me. | I gotta find myself a woman. »
