La Foire d'Empoigne by Jean Anouilh
Translated by Lucienne Hill
Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe
with Malcolm Keen and Peter Bull
The first production in English of Anouith's most recent ironic comedy on Napoleon, Louis XVIII, and the Hundred Days.
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by VAL GIELGUD
La Foire d'Empoigne - translated with audacity rather than absolute accuracy by the producer as Animal Grab - is the sixteenth of Jean Anouilh's plays to be presented by the BBC. With this work, the most recent of Anouilh's plays to have been performed with great success in Paris, a broadcast performance has again 'scooped' the English theatre.