{"id":3794,"date":"2024-10-20T15:07:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/article\/a-crepe-for-the-gallows-please\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T11:25:02","slug":"a-crepe-for-the-gallows-please","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/article\/a-crepe-for-the-gallows-please\/","title":{"rendered":"A crepe for the gallows, please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(inspired by Jean Teule\u2019s <em>The Suicide Shop<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tuvache family have been merchants for\u2026ever.\u00a0 They own one of the biggest, most well-known suicide shops in the country.\u00a0 All family members \u2013father Mishima, mother Lucrece, daughter Merilyn and son Vincent- are named after famous suicides and suffer from depression, as all their ancestors did.\u00a0 Needless to say they never smile.\u00a0 The only problem of the family is their youngest son Alan who suffers from innate happiness and joy of life, and constantly smiles, thus threatening the survival of the family business.\u00a0 Alan manages to inspire in his sister\u2019s heart the love for Ernest, the young cemetery receptionist, and wake her lively, flirtatious self; he turns his anorexic brother into an artist; he brings out in his workaholic, strict mother her most sensitive, overprotective loving side.\u00a0 Soon, however, Mishima finds out that Alan has taken advantage of his short absence for health reasons to change their suicide shop into a shop selling fun gadgets and party tricks.\u00a0 Mishima chases Alan to kill him with his bare hands, but is hindered by the rest of the family.\u00a0 However, when during the chase Alan slips from the roof of the building and risks getting killed, the entire family \u2013with Mishima leading- starts a rescue operation. They stretch their hand to hold him and slowly drag him up. A few metres before safety, Alan sees that his lifelong dream has come true \u2013to make a smiling, united family- and lets go of their hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A crepe for the gallows, please<\/p>\n<p>4  male \u2013 3 female<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[11,12],"class_list":["post-3794","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-general-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}