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Grace Joy Howarth’s new play is a stage adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘lost’ novel. A fictionalised account of the passionate friendship she had as a young girl with Elisabeth ‘Zaza’ Lacoin (who died age 21), she deemed it too intimate to publish in her lifetime and it only emerged in 2020. Anastasia Bunce directs this stage incarnation