Who Remembers Éponine’s Sister?
short comedy
Based on Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Bechdel test asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. Who Remembers Éponine’s Sister? goes even further. It never mentions any males at all.
Synopsis
Azelma Thénardier has always lived in her elder sister’s shadow. Today she gets a chance to be the heroine of her own story.
Characters
MUCHE, small preteen girl, until yesterday a happy street urchin, now suffering from charity and employment
AZELMA THÉNARDIER, teenage girl, an apprentice milliner, determined to be respectable despite her family’s criminal background
COSETTE, wealthy teenage girl, straightforward and easy-going
Setting
A millinery shop in Paris
Time
1830
Published by YouthPLAYS (Los Angeles)
Published in Lit on Fire: Twelve Short Parodies of Reading List Classics
This play may be performed as part of the collection Girls Rock the Classics.
The Bechdel test asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. Who Remembers Éponine’s Sister? goes even further. It never mentions any males at all.
Synopsis
Azelma Thénardier has always lived in her elder sister’s shadow. Today she gets a chance to be the heroine of her own story.
Characters
MUCHE, small preteen girl, until yesterday a happy street urchin, now suffering from charity and employment
AZELMA THÉNARDIER, teenage girl, an apprentice milliner, determined to be respectable despite her family’s criminal background
COSETTE, wealthy teenage girl, straightforward and easy-going
Setting
A millinery shop in Paris
Time
1830
Published by YouthPLAYS (Los Angeles)
Published in Lit on Fire: Twelve Short Parodies of Reading List Classics
This play may be performed as part of the collection Girls Rock the Classics.
Lit on Fire
Daviess County High School
Owensboro, Kentucky
May 4, 2018
Daviess County High School
Owensboro, Kentucky
May 4, 2018
