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The Dragon by Yevgeny Schwartz - 1944

Performed by the ^12th class

School auditorium - Open to all - Free admission

Written in 1944 by Russian playwright Evgueni Schwartz, this play was banned from the outset by the Soviet regime. In France, it was rediscovered and performed in 1968.

Lancelot, a modern-day knight-errant and vigilante by profession, discovers a town that has been under the control of a horrible three-headed dragon for 400 years. Lancelot will fight the dragon for the town, to give it back its freedom.

But... The dragon is not a dragon, Lancelot is not a knight, and Elsa, the young woman sacrificed to the dragon, is not just a victim...

Indeed, under the guise of a tale, this play questions public authority, the confiscation of power, but above all, voluntary servitude, as masterfully illuminated by the young Etienne de la Boétie as early as the ^16th century.

Ages 11 and up.

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