The Sweetheart
A lost masterpiece of French theatre — published in a new English translation for the first time.
In a Parisian hat shop where dreams are stitched from silk and secrets, the price of love is devastatingly high. Behind the elegant façade of a bustling turn-of-the-century millinery, spirited shopgirl Marguerite and idealistic heir André fall into a forbidden love affair. But when a secret pregnancy comes to light, their private world collides with the brutal machinery of bourgeois morality.
This vibrant new translation resurrects Brieux's forgotten classic for a modern audience, asking a question as relevant today as it was over a century ago: in a world determined to crush them, what is the ultimate cost of a love that dares to exist? Published here for the first time in English.
