It's Only the End of the World (play)

It's Only the End of the World
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Written byJean-Luc Lagarce
Date premiered 1990 (1990-MM)
Original languageFrench

It's Only the End of the World[1] (French: Juste la fin du monde) is a 1990 French play by Jean-Luc Lagarce. It is about a character named Louis who returns to his family to announce his terminal illness. Lagarce wrote the play in 1990,[2] when he was considering his own death.[1] In 2008, the Comédie-Française added the play to its repertoire.[3] It won the 2008 Molière Award for Best Show in a National Theatre.[4] In 2016, it was adapted into a film of the same name by Xavier Dolan.

  1. ^ a b Finburgh, C.; Lavery, C. (May 17, 2011). Contemporary French Theatre and Performance. Springer. p. 48. ISBN 978-0230305663.
  2. ^ Mounsef, Donia (2007). The Transparency of the Text: Contemporary Writing for the Stage. Yale University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0300118193.
  3. ^ Burgwinkle, William; Hammond, Nicholas; Wilson, Emma (February 24, 2011). The Cambridge History of French Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 611. ISBN 978-0521897860.
  4. ^ Bouvet, Bruno (28 May 2008). "L'énergie solaire de Laurent Stocker". La Croix. Retrieved 18 March 2017.