Our season starts with love and magic at a sidewalk café in Paris where artists and ragmen and madwomen become aware of a diabolical plan to drill for oil in the middle of Paris. The Madwoman of Chaillot develops a scheme with her eccentric circle of friends to stop the men and their insatiable lust for oil. Written in 1943 by Jean Giraudoux while Nazis occupied Paris this poetic satire is a celebration of love, life, defiance, rebellion.