Play: 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

The heroine, a wealthy, melancholic widow from the bourgeoisie, spends her days in casinos, bored. In Monaco, she falls in love with a pair of hands – slender, powerful, expressive, tense, nervous – those of a young man who is losing at the casino. What follows is an incredible odyssey: in the space of 24 hours, she becomes a different woman from the one she has been for forty years. She surprises herself – and us – at every turn. Stefan Zweig, humanist, psychologist and modern storyteller, draws us into a captivating tale, right at the very heart of passion. The art of theatre only takes on its full meaning when it succeeds in bringing people together and uniting them. – Jean Vilar