The Piggy Bank (Bermel)

The Piggy Bank (Bermel)

The Piggy Bank (Bermel)

Eugene Labiche, A. Delacour

The Piggy Bank (Bermel)

The Piggy Bank (Bermel)

Eugene Labiche, A. Delacour

Overview

Hailed as one of the funniest satires in the repertory on middle-class manners, La Cagnotte (formerly entitled Pots of Money in English) concerns a group of rural card cheats who pool their money to go on a spending spree in Paris. They go afoul of the law when they run up bills they cannot pay.

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Cautions

  • Caution Mild Adult Mild Adult Themes

Authors

Eugene Labiche

Eugène-Marin Labiche (1815-1888) was a comic playwright who wrote many of the most popular and amusing light comedies of the 19th-century French stage. Written together with other authors, these works were presented mostly at the Palais-Royal, the home of light comedy. The be ...
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Author

A. Delacour