Verse play · 1920 (performed), published 1921
Aria da Capo
A Play in One Act
At a black-and-white Harlequinade supper, Pierrot and Columbine play at love and boredom until the masque of Tragedy, Cothurnus, orders them off the stage to make room for a pastoral scene. Two shepherds, Thyrsis and Corydon, build a wall of coloured ribbons between their pastures, quarrel over a pool and a mine of jewels, and destroy each other. When the bodies are dragged away, Pierrot and Columbine resume their supper from the beginning: a one-act verse play against war and indifference, first performed in 1919.
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