The Inseparables
by Grace Joy Howarth
by Grace Joy Howarth
Startlingly poignant, The Inseparables tells the true story of an intimate female friendship that shaped one of the most important thinkers and feminists of the 20th century. Finally published in 2020, it was critically acclaimed as a rediscovered classic, and now is adapted for the theatre for the very first time...
About The Play
France during the First World War.
Nine-year-old Sylvie Lapage prays for France to be saved from the war, but her miracle arrives in the form of the new girl at school… Andrée is unlike anyone else – wildly bright and full of life.
Finally, Sylvie has someone who makes her laugh, someone to talk to about literature, equality, war, and religion, someone to call her closest friend. As the girls become inseparable, they battle against the strictness of their sheltered Catholic bourgeois upbringing.
But as the girls grow up and face the mounting pressures of becoming a young woman, will they ever find the freedom they both hunger for?
Startlingly poignant, The Inseparables tells the true story of an intimate female friendship that shaped one of the most important thinkers and feminists of the 20th century.
Written five years after her seminal feminist text The Second Sex, The Inseparables was never published during Simone de Beauvoir’s lifetime, on the advice of her life-long partner, the existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre. Finally published in 2020, it was critically acclaimed as a rediscovered classic, and now is adapted for the theatre for the very first time.