The prologue to this play recalls a bombardment which "murdered the constellations" before a captain cries "The time has come to light the stars again.
The prologue to this play recalls a bombardment which "murdered the constellations" before a captain cries "The time has come to light the stars again." In its opening scene, its main character wishes to become a "mathematician philosopher chemist" and ignores her husband's pleas for bacon. In its first act, Presto and Lacouf shoot each other with cardboard pistols, and a newspaper kiosk comes to life. This play is set in Zanzibar, and includes a character who boasts to a journalist about giving birth to 40,049 children. Its preface coined the word "surrealism," and its title character releases parts of her body as balloons before becoming male. The basis for an opera by Francois Poulenc, for 10 points, identify this play by Guillame Apollinaire named for a blind Greek prophet who was transformed into a woman.
The prologue to this play recalls a bombardment which "murdered the constellations" before a captain cries "The time has come to light the stars again.
The Breasts of Tiresias [or Les mamelles de Tiresias] 