Once upon a time there was the Republic
Once upon a time there was the Republic
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Citizens, to the polls!<p> The author is staging a play in honor of a secular and fraternal Republic. It is an auto-sacramental, a baroque allegory that blends the sublime with the grotesque against a backdrop of music and dance. The author has commissioned an artist to create a fresco of the Republic inspired by the characters in her play. These characters represent virtues, institutions, vices, and concepts: among them is a weary and worn-out Republic consulting a shamanic gardener to find its creator: the People.<br><br> She summons her three daughters, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, to reconstitute the original trio. But the President, Capital, and the Judge play tricks on her. We also see characters from Le Monde, victims or protagonists of the decadence of a republican system that has forgotten the fundamental values at the heart of its existence.</p>
