Upstaged
Two minutes into the second act, there is a knock on Nicolas Boehlmer's dressing-room door, just as he's smoking his last cigarette before having to go back on stage... and, without thinking, he says, Come in, still in character. He quickly finds himself bound, gagged, and stripped by a man who appears to be his mirror image: costumed in the same wig, makeup, and clothes. Nicolas is powerless to prevent his usurper from going out and playing his role--with increasingly ridiculous consequences. Is this upstaging the act of a depraved amateur? Sabotage by a rival? A piece of guerrilla theater? A political statement? Whatever the cause, Nicolas…
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Weitere Autoren: De La Durantaye, Leland, Professor of Literature (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-56478-574-9
- EAN: 9781564785749
- Produktnummer: 6357211
- Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 87 S.
Über den Autor
Jacques Jouet was elected to the Oulipo in 1983. He is the author of more than sixty texts in a variety of genres-novels, poetry, plays, literary criticism, and short fiction-including the novels Mountain R (part of his La Re?publique roman cycle), Savage, and Upstaged, all published by Dalkey Archive.
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