From childhood to middle age, money gives life its tempo, with either fruitful moments or debts. Dough is a fast-paced, light, and funny choral text that goes through the different stages of life, tracing its relationship to money.


Written and directed by David Lescot
With Matthew Brown, Hannah Mitchell, Zach Lusk
Light design: Roderick Murray
Translation by Chris Campbell


About David Lescot: Author, stage director and musician, David Lescot is an associate artist of Théâtre de la Ville, Paris. His writing, like his stage work seeks to mix theatre with non-dramatic forms, in particular music. David’s work has been rewarded with several prizes (Prize of the Best French Speaking Creation, 2007; New Talent (Révélation) Molière Award in 2009, and his plays are published by Editions Actes Sud and translated into English, German, Polish, Italian, Russian. Lescot also directs opera such as Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera (2014 at Opéra de Lille), among others. His work Les Ondes magnétiques was presented by La Comédie-Francaise –Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in his own staging, a second collaboration with the famous troupe.

Dough is a production of Villa Albertine, Paris. The New York production is supported by FACE Contemporary Theater and The Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

In the theater field, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy aims to highlight the work of French playwrights – both in French and English translation – for a broad American audience. In recent years, greater attention has been devoted to developing productions of French plays translated to English staged with an American cast.


Revised at Lark Play Development Center (Feb 2018)