Paul Colin’s set design model for the play “Donogoo” in the French magazine “L’Illustration” (1931).
“A few months later: the public square and the first houses of the new city of Donogoo in the process of growth.”
“Donogoo” opened in Paris in October of 1930 and was so successful it saved the struggling Théâtre Pigalle from ruin. All but unknown in the English-speaking world until 2011, the play by Jules Romains (1885-1972) traces the unlikely course of a desperate man (Lamendin) from his contemplation of suicide to unwittingly setting in motion a stock market swindle of global proportions. Investors, pioneers and prospectors are driven to seek their fortune in a place that doesn’t exist.
“Along the way, Romains finds time to thoroughly skewer the pretensions of those in the artistic, medical, journalistic, and banking professions, and to offhandedly explore, with a black-comic eye, the peculiarly Western versions of economic, racial, political, and sexual exploitation. . .” – The New Yorker Magazine.
[Note: Replace "a place that doesn't exist" with "a currency that doesn't exist" and Voila! -- Bitcoin]
Paul Colin’s set design model for the play “Donogoo” in the French magazine “L’Illustration” (1931).
“A few months later: the public square and the first houses of the new city of Donogoo in the process of growth.”
“Donogoo” opened in Paris in October of 1930 and was so successful it saved the struggling Théâtre Pigalle from ruin. All but unknown in the English-speaking world until 2011, the play by Jules Romains (1885-1972) traces the unlikely course of a desperate man (Lamendin) from his contemplation of suicide to unwittingly setting in motion a stock market swindle of global proportions. Investors, pioneers and prospectors are driven to seek their fortune in a place that doesn’t exist.
“Along the way, Romains finds time to thoroughly skewer the pretensions of those in the artistic, medical, journalistic, and banking professions, and to offhandedly explore, with a black-comic eye, the peculiarly Western versions of economic, racial, political, and sexual exploitation. . .” – The New Yorker Magazine.
[Note: Replace "a place that doesn't exist" with "a currency that doesn't exist" and Voila! -- Bitcoin]