Macaire — A Melodramatic Farce in Three Acts
Persons Represented
Robert Macaire.
Bertrand.
Dumont, Landlord of the Auberge des Adrets.
Charles, a Gendarme, Dumont’s supposed son.
Goriot.
The Marquis, Charles’s Father.
The Brigadier of Gendarmerie.
The Curate.
The Notary.
A Waiter.
Ernestine, Goriot’s Daughter.
Aline.
Maids, Peasants (Male and Female), Gendarmes.
The Scene is laid in the Courtyard of the Auberge des Adrets, on the frontier of France and Savoy. The time 1800. The action occupies an interval of from twelve to fourteen hours: from four in the afternoon till about five in the morning.
Note.—The time between the acts should be as brief as possible, and the piece played, where it is merely comic, in a vein of patter.