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The Breasts of Tiresias

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Written by
  
Genre
  
Surrealist drama

Playwright
  
Date premiered
  
1917 (1917)

First performance
  
1917

Original language
  
French language

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The Breasts of Tiresias (French: Les mamelles de Tirésias) is a surrealist play by Guillaume Apollinaire. Written in 1903, the play received its first production in a revised version in 1917. In his preface to the play, the poet invented the word "surrealism" to describe his new style of drama.

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The play has been adapted into an opera by Francis Poulenc. It also has been translated twice, first Louis Simpson in the 1960s and Maya Slater in 2009. In 2010, Eric Wallach adapted and directed The Breasts of Tiresias: A Surrealist Musical in Paris.

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Plot

Inspired by the story of the Theban soothsayer Teiresias, the author inverted the myth to produce a provocative interpretation with feminist and pacifist elements. He tells the story of Thérèse, who changes her sex to obtain power among men, with the aim of changing customs, subverting the past, and establishing equality between the sexes.

References

The Breasts of Tiresias Wikipedia


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