ABSTRACT
Cenie inspired applause and foot-stomping, so much so that dust was raised in the theater. In a general way, its plot resembles many others: A child apparently deprived of her parents finds them, and the audience enjoys a senO timental recognition-scene at the end of the play. What is not usual is that
while working in a literature notable for dead or otherwise absent mothers, Graffigny creates a mother-and-daughter pair that occupies the longest scene in the play. The debates and tender discussions between mother and daughter are rare both in their length and in their depiction of mutual understanding and of solidarity in misfortune.
