"When Jean-Marc Sauvet, successful lawyer and the best friend of Aix-en-Provence's examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque, accepted a small role in a local theater's summer production of Marcel Pagnol's Cigalon, he had no idea that the lead actress would be played by the great Liliane Poncet. But Jean-Marc's excitement about rubbing elbows with one of France's legendary film stars is quickly extinguished. The lead actor, Gauthier Lesage, is rude and unenthusiastic, and nobody understands how he got the part. Chaos reigns backstage thanks to the absentminded theater director. And everyone seems to be harboring a secret. When one of the actors goes missing for good, it's up to the soon-to-be-a-father Verlaque and his police commissioner, Bruno Paulik, to untangle the threads of a mystery that seems to get more complicated every day . . ."--

"Calamity befalls the little Vendome Theater in the tenth installment of the sun- and wine-soaked Provençal Mystery Series"-- When Jean-Marc Sauvet, successful lawyer and the best friend of Aix-en-Provence's examining magistrate Antoine Verlaque, accepted a small role in a local theater's summer production of Marcel Pagnol's Cigalon, he had no idea that the lead actress would be played by the great Liliane Poncet. But his excitement about rubbing elbows with one of France's legendary film stars is quickly extinguished. The lead actor, Gauthier Lesage, is rude and unenthusiastic, and nobody understands how he got the part.The theater director is absentminded, and everyone seems to be harboring a secret. When one of the actors goes missing for good, it's up to Verlaque and his police commissioner, Bruno Paulik, to untangle the threads of a mystery that seems to get more complicated every day. -- adapted from back cover

Max Borges es un director de teatro barcelonés que conduce una pequeña y excéntrica compañía. El día del estreno de Macbeth, la obra de Shakespeare, Max está al borde del colapso. Todo parece que va a salir mal en la función que debería ser su salto a la fama más sublime: las brujas son demasiado bellas, al rey Duncan se le ha roto la corona y su Macbeth huele sospechosamente a whisky escocés… Sin embargo, como suele recordarle su inteligente asistente de dirección, Elsa Soler, el espectáculo siempre debe continuar. Sorprendentemente, el duende del teatro parece haberles rociado con su suerte y la función es un éxito absoluto, tanto que son invitados a representar la obra en el Festival Fringe de Edimburgo, el más importante del mundo. La divertida compañía pone rumbo a una aventura en una ciudad llena de magia. Será allí donde, al caer el telón, el amor y la amistad se conviertan en los verdaderos protagonistas de esta historia.

Discusses the three elements necessary for putting on a production: cast, play, and audience. Also includes tips on acting and writing one's own play.

Photograph (15 x 12 cm. on dark brown stock), identified on the back as "The Magic Mirror", of what appears to be the cast of an amateur theater production which could have been from a late 19th century religious or civic group. A few names appear on the back: Bessie Stannard (nun), C.L. Prescott (scholar), Clyde Carleton (nurse), Sadie Morgan (bride), Robert Stevens (bridegroom), and Marie Barrell.