Le Repas des fauves - Theatre
Theatre
Paris 1942. Seven guests, who have more or less come to terms with the German occupation, meet at the home of one of them to celebrate their host's birthday. The evening was going well when two German officers were shot dead at the foot of their building. In retaliation, the Gestapo enter the building and decide to take two hostages from each flat. But Commandant Kaubach, who is in charge of the operation, recognises the owner of the flat, Mr Pélissier, as a bookseller from whom he regularly buys books. Anxious to maintain the courteous relationship he had always enjoyed with him, he decided to let them finish their dinner and only pick up his hostages at dessert. Better still, he lets them choose the two hostages who will accompany him. And so Le Repas des fauves begins.
Far from depicting an era, the play develops a timeless, universal and terribly human dramatic plot with which every spectator can identify, inevitably ending up asking themselves: ‘What would I do in their place?
Paris 1942. Seven guests, who have more or less come to terms with the German occupation, meet at the home of one of them to celebrate their host's birthday. The evening was going well when two German officers were shot dead at the foot of their building. In retaliation, the Gestapo enter the building and decide to take two hostages from each flat. But Commandant Kaubach, who is in charge of the operation, recognises the owner of the flat, Mr Pélissier, as a bookseller from whom he regularly buys books. Anxious to maintain the courteous relationship he had always enjoyed with him, he decided to let them finish their dinner and only pick up his hostages at dessert. Better still, he lets them choose the two hostages who will accompany him. And so Le Repas des fauves begins.
Far from depicting an era, the play develops a timeless, universal and terribly human dramatic plot with which every spectator can identify, inevitably ending up asking themselves: ‘What would I do in their place?
