This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.

This most successful of Anouilh's works in the United States is an excellent lark loaded with humorous whims, romance, and masquerades. The scene is a palatial home where two attractive young girls reside. The home is invaded by three affectionate thieves, on the one hand, and by a country bumpkin on the other. A lovely romance blooms instantly between one of the girls and the youngest thief. Being a very honest fellow, he cannot in good conscience accept her love, and instead turns with vengean

The great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both "pink" bittersweet comedies and "black" tragic dramas. Jean Anouilh Five Plays—the finest English-language anthology of his works—crackles with both his sharp wit and his icy cynicism. In Antigone, his preeminent play and exemplar of his themes and style, he creates a disturbing world in which fate may be no more than a game of role-playing. Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette are the other plays included in this edition.

This collection includes: Antigone ; The Lark ; Poor Bitos - works which show Anouilh's love of reworking myth, history and legend. Leocadia and The Waltz of the Toreadors demonstrate his talent for ironic modern comedy.

Theatre of the Living Arts presents the Southwark Company in "Poor Bitos," by Jean Anouilh, director: Andre Gregory, scenic design & lighting: Eugene Lee, costume design: Adam Sage, production manager: Leon Gersten, electronic music composed by Tom Aronis, artistic director: Andre Gregory, associate director: George Sherman, managing director: David Lunney.