His wife told him her cousin had returned to their hometown of Cahors for a visit. Pierre also admits to an amazing lack of curiosity about Marie-Therese after she disappeared. It is unclear what, if anything, Pierre heard on the night of the murder. Pierre Lannes says the murder was committed in the forest outside the village, but his wife maintains she killed her cousin in the cellar of their house. There are some interesting aspects to the case. As it turns out, however, he basically wants to know two things: Where is the head? Why did she do it? The entire play consists of two interviews conducted by a character identified only as ''the Interrogator,'' who, unlike the police, is not interested in facts, but only in finding out the Truth.
A production of the work by Stages Trilingual Theater of Los Angeles is being presented at the Cherry Lane Theater under the title ''English Mint/L'Amante Anglaise.'' The following year Marguerite Duras wrote ''L'Amante Anglaise,'' a slight psychological study of Claire Lannes and her husband, Pierre. They soon arrested Claire Lannes, the wife of a retired railway employee, and charged her with the murder of her cousin, a deaf-mute named Marie-Therese, who had kept house for the Lannes family for 21 years. The police, working with rail schedules, finally pinpointed a bridge under which all the trains carrying parts of the woman's body had passed. The only thing missing was the victim's head. Within days other parts of the same body were found in boxcars across France. In April 1966 French railway officials found a piece of a female human torso in a freight train.
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