Reviewed by Marilyn Stasio
<cite>Les Éphémères</cite>, while composed of domestic scenes set in modern-day France, is concerned with the fragile, transitory nature of human life and happiness. With the audience seated, arena-style, on both sides of a narrow strip of stage, scenes roll by on wheeled turntables, presenting snatches of life—happy, sad, brutish—that are quickly swept away to become part of the past.