False starts : "a subterfuge of excellent wit" : dialogues, silences, and intimacies : a story / Louis Patrick Leroux ; Translated from the French by Alexander St-Laurent, Louis Patrick Leroux, and Katia Grubisic ; foreword by Nicole Nolette and Jenn Stephenson.

Dialogues fantasques pour causeurs éperdus. English

124 pages ; 22 cm.

A play.

Juvenillia : the ur-play. Dialogue, take 1 : flirtatious draft ; 2 characters (1m, 1w) ; Dialogues (1m, 1w). -- Prolegomena. What they will not say ; 2 characters (1m, 1w) ; Dialogues (1m,1 w). -- Dialogues, take 2. The chance encounter of Marie Antoinette and Napoleon on a dissection table ; 2 characters (1m, 1w) ; Dialogues (1m, 1w). -- A moment of authenticity ; 2 characters (1m, 1w) ; Dialogues (1m, 1w). -- Dialogue, takes 3 and 4. Marie Antoinette and Napoleon at the Hudson's Bay ; 2 characters (1m, 1w) ; Dialogues (1m, 1w). -- Metered confessional ; 2 characters (1m, 1w) ; Dialogues (1m, 1w). -- Well, I like sheep! ; 2 characters (1m, 1w) ; Dialogues (1m, 1w) ; Juveniles plays. -- The top hat and the sewing machine ; 2 characters (1m, 1w) ; Dialogues (1m, 1w). -- The race. -- Scene of truth ; 2 characters (1m, 1w) ; Dialogues (1m, 1w). -- Failures ; 2 characters (1m, 1w) ; Dialogues (1m, 1w). -- False starts.

9781772010275 (paperback)

D L6182di 2016