L'Invitation au Château

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L'Invitation au Château (Invitation to a Castle), also known as Ring Round the Moon, is a 1947 satirical play by the French playwright Jean Anouilh. The play concerns two twins, a cold, manipulative playboy Orace, and his sensitive brother Fredric. Fredric is madly in love with Diane, the spoiled daughter of a self-made Jewish millionaire. She herself wants Orace, as his impenetrability teases her. In order to show to Fredric that Diane is not worth his attentions, Orace invites to a ball Isabelle, a lower-class dancer, whom he Pygmalion-like transforms into an aristocratic beauty.

The play criticizes class difference and the power of money in our society.