Les affaires sont les affaires (Mirbeau play)
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| Author | Octave Mirbeau |
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| Original title | 'Les affaires sont les affaires' |
| Language | French |
| Genre | comedy |
| Publisher | Fasquelle |
Publication date | April 1903 |
| Publication place |  France |
Business Is Business (French: Les affaires sont les affaires) is a French comedy in three acts, by the novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, performed in April 1903 on the stage of Comédie-Française, in Paris, and worldwide acclaimed, especially in Russia, Germany and United States.[1]
An English-language adaption by Sydney Grundy was produced in London in 1905. An English translation, by Richard J. Hand, was published by Intellect Books in Two Plays: "Business is Business" and "Charity", January 2012, 147 pages (ISBN 9781841504865).
The work is a classical comedy of manners with characters, in the tradition of Molière,[2] in which Mirbeau criticizes the French society of the Third Republic and the world of business as a legal kind of gangsterism.[3]
When the play was presented in Paris during the 1994-5 season (400 performances), it was commented that business and scandals are no different today than they were 100 years ago.
