Topaze

Topaze, an honourable and naive teacher at the Muche boarding school, becomes embroiled in the corrupt dealings of the Castel-Bénac town council ... In this timeless play, Marcel Pagnol describes the conventions of so-called better society in a magnificent and humorous way. This "character comedy of the first order" signalled Pagnol's international breakthrough as a playwright. "The audience laughed so often that a third of our text was lost." Max Maurey REVIEW "topaze is a simply brilliant comedy! this theatre is incredible fun! you could laugh tears while reading it - if it didn't blur the letters, because you simply can't put this book down until you've got through all four acts." tobias bruns, philosophenstreik.