The great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both "pink" bittersweet comedies and "black" tragic dramas.
Eurydice , The Ermine , The Rehearsal ,.
In Antigone , his preeminent play and exemplar of his themes and style, he creates a disturbing world in which fate may be no more than a game of role-playing.
Jean Anouilh Five Plays -- the finest English-language anthology of his works -- crackles with both his sharp wit and his icy cynicism.
The great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both "pink" bittersweet comedies and "black" tragic dramas