by Jean Anouilh
Translated by Lucienne Hill. Adapted for radio and produced by Raymond Raikes
with Alec McCowen, John Shrapnel and Prunella Scales

Anouilh once described this play as 'an odd, outlandish piece'; and in a programme note, written in 1970, he warns his audience that whereas some of the action takes place in Brittany near the seaside on 14 July 1960 precisely, certain scenes occur only in the author's imagination, where Time does not exist.

followed by an Interlude