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Indiscretions, Jeremy Sams’ modern translation of Cocteau’s
highly praised Les Parents Terribles (1938), is a play about a tumultuous
family whose romantic endeavors have become hopelessly entangled.
Indiscretions chronicles the struggle of a young man, Michael,
to escape the suffocating passion of his dominant mother, Yvonne. He is
pulled from Yvonne’s womb-like world by a new-found love, a young woman
named Madeleine who must rid herself of an older lover before she and Michael
can be together. Complications blossom throughout the play as we discover
that Yvonne’s sister Leonie has harbored an unrequited love for Yvonne’s
husband (and Michael’s father) George, and that Yvonne’s obsessive concern
for Michael has driven George to take a lover.
Indiscretions’ Paris opening in 1938 was sensation. In fact,
it caused a public stir; the Municipal Council of Paris banned the production,
calling it “prejudicial to morality and public order,” a decree which increased
the play’s popularity considerably. Indiscretions reopened at the
Theatre des Boutes-Parisiens in 1939 and played to capacity audiences for
the next six months.
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