The Arrest
by Lucienne Hill

In a seedy, decadent kind of Grand Hotel are gathered a number of has beens.

These include a man and a young man, a young married man and his wife, a band leader and the pianist he's sleeping with (when her son isn't spying on them), a policeman and others.

Then Anouilh turns magician and starts turning time inside out.

Suddenly, the young married woman becomes a grandmother the devastating mistress of the prince with whom the young married man runs off turns out to be a stinking slattern with thirty two cats and the time warp takes place with the other characters too.

Revelations abound as a result.

A play of splendid style and devastating aesthetic truth.