Corset

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Five actresses portray the female protagonist.
The play uses Lagarce’s text as music, creating a female quintet chirping about rules of good manners and good postures, picking and pecking at strategies for afternoon tea, embroidering gossip into a jazz suite.

Written by Jean Luc Lagarce

Directed by Marion Schoevaert

Performed at the Knitting Factory, New York City in 2001 lagarce-2