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From the celebrated writer of Art a scathingly hilarious commentary on vanityprofessional insecurity and the vicissitudes of marriage.Life X 3 presents three versions of two couples and an offstage sixyearold trying to make a success of one evening despite the fact that they neitherlike nor respect one another. When Hubert and Ines arrive a day early to dinnerat the home of Henri and Sophie Sophie barely has time to change out of herrobe and Ines is in a foul mood about a run in her stockingfrom there theevening can only go downhill. Over an improvised meal of chocolate fingerspotato chips and wine the couples trade insults on every social andprofessional level and loyalties are changed with the same rapidity thatglasses of Sancerre are drained. However as she has so astutely done in thepast Yasmina Reza uses these acidic exchanges to illuminate the innate desirefor love and acceptance in us all. «
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