Overview
In pre-Revolutionary Paris, a young girl fresh from the convent is promised in marriage to an older nobleman to pay off her father’s debts. She flees to the literary salon of her late mother’s friends, aristocratic women who conceal radical politics within reinvented folk tales. But which of them is her fairy godmother, and which the cruel stepmother? Is the duke a Prince Charming or a Beast? And is the maid the humble nobody they treat her as, or the hero of a story none of them knows they are in?
Casting & Production
Casting
FRANÇOISE — a maid in her late teens/20s
MADELEINE DE SAUVETERRE — a girl in her late teens
HENRIETTE, THE COMTESSE DE MARÉ — a woman in her 30s or older
GABRIELLE, THE MARQUISE D’AULNEY — a woman in her 30s or older
CLAUDE, THE DUC DE LA BEAUCHENE — a man in his 30s or older
Setting
An aristocrat’s reception room in pre-Revolutionary Paris,
one afternoon
