A Stranger discovers the body of a drowned young girl. Accompanied by an Old Man, he observes by a lighted window the quiet life of the family to which he has to tell the news to as as the procession carrying the drowned girl's body is getting closer.

Not specified

Maeterlinck Maurice

Belgium

Ghent

France

Paris

Printed

Death

Drowning

Silence

Procession

Family

Pity

Check up on

Bad news

Dramatic

Tragic

French

Old man

Foreigner

Petite-fille

Peasant

Crowd

Father

Mother

Daughter

Child

Offstage

Teichoscopy

Silent play

Intérieur

Interior

A dirty and emaciated Agneau (Lamb) is alone and followed by a Vautour (Vulture) waiting for him to die to eat him. The Agneau arrives in a pasture where he hopes to be taken in by a new Troupeau (Flock). The Troupeau asks him questions and reproaches him for having lied: he said at first that he did not know what had happened to his own flock, before admitting that they had all been killed. The Troupeau therefore refuses to take him in, and the sheep send the Patou – the sheepdog that watches over them – to chase him away. But the Patou knows the lonely Agneau’s original flock. In fact, he was raised there by Bella the ewe, whom he thinks of as her mother. As a consequence, he is convinced that the Agneau is his brother. Patou kisses him, tells him that he can stay in the Troupeau and that dogs and sheep are not different. He starts bleating to prove it and he teaches the Agneau how to bark.

All audiences

Bourg-en-Bresse

Electronic text

Migrant

Refugees

Animal

Inclusion

Livestock

Identity

Hospitality

Fantasy

Anaïs Vaugelade, L'Agneau a menti, stage direction by Émilie Flacher, 2018.