Builders of empire

the Builders of empire is a Play written by Boris Vian in 1959.

Summary

It is about a burlesque Tragédie which puts in scene a family which is driven out little by little of her own house by a strange and quiet character, Schmürz, which obliges them to move of stage in stage in increasingly small and sordid apartments.

Characters

  • Leon
  • Anna
  • Zénobie
  • Jug
  • the neighbor
  • Schmürz
  • Xavier

Quotations

I wonder whether I am not playing with the words. And if the words were made for that?
They is the young people who remember. The old men, they forget all
Être satisfied or gâteux, it is quite similar. When one does not want any more of nothing, to be gâteux as much”

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