SAINT-FELIX-LAURAGAIS
This short play by Eugène Labiche is little-known, original and accessible to young audiences. It tells the story of a bourgeois man, Lenglumé, who wakes up one morning in a drunken haze after a night of partying. But who’s snoring in his bed? Where is the famous green umbrella he was lent? What are those cherry stones and lumps of coal doing in his pockets? Today’s newspaper reports the sordid murder of a coalminer …