The plot of Jean Giradoux’s 1943 comedy The Madwoman of Chaillot seems gleefully plucked from this year’s most outrageous headlines: in a sidewalk café near the Champs Elysees, three corrupt businessmen scheme to manipulate the stock price of their as-yet unnamed startup corporation.  The plot thickens when they meet an unscrupulous prospector hell-bent on digging up the streets of Paris to harvest the oil that he can “taste” in the local water.   

Enter Countess Aurelia, the “Madwoman of Chaillot”.  Aurelia is a magnificent eccentric: extravagant, imperious, humane, living the truth of her own imagination, revered by the outcasts and vagabonds of her native Chaillot quarter.  With the help of her streetwise friends and her sister madwomen, the countess hatches a plot to defeat the forces of greed, and liberate the world from their deadly influence. 

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