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ederwin's review
3.0
The first play to be explicitly called "surrealist" by its author.
I didn't exactly "read" this, but I attended a live semi-staged reading. If listening to an audiobook counts as "reading" the book, surely watching a play counts, too.
The story is intentionally quite silly. A woman's breasts fly away and she becomes a man. As a man she becomes a general and mayor, among other things. Her former husband still wants to have children, and decides he can do it by himself. So he does. He has 40,049 babies in one single day. Then, because he needs to make money, he has another baby which he rears to be a journalist -- all in that same one day. For reasons I don't remember, and surely don't matter, the woman's breasts come back. The end.
With a full-scale production, and the right actors, this could be funny. When it was originally produced in 1917, it probably seemed hilarious. But what I saw was "Meh!". I'm still glad I experienced it.
I didn't exactly "read" this, but I attended a live semi-staged reading. If listening to an audiobook counts as "reading" the book, surely watching a play counts, too.
The story is intentionally quite silly. A woman's breasts fly away and she becomes a man. As a man she becomes a general and mayor, among other things. Her former husband still wants to have children, and decides he can do it by himself. So he does. He has 40,049 babies in one single day. Then, because he needs to make money, he has another baby which he rears to be a journalist -- all in that same one day. For reasons I don't remember, and surely don't matter, the woman's breasts come back. The end.
With a full-scale production, and the right actors, this could be funny. When it was originally produced in 1917, it probably seemed hilarious. But what I saw was "Meh!". I'm still glad I experienced it.
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