La Machine à écrire is a three-act play written by French dramatist Jean Cocteau, premiered on 29 April 1941 at the Théâtre Hébertot in Paris.

It has been translated into English as The Typewriter by Ronald Duncan.^[1]

• Fred Jacques Baumer
• Didier Louis Salou
• Pascal Jean Marais
• Maxime Jean Marais
• Solange Gabrielle Dorziat
• Margot Michèle Alfa
• Postmistress Jandeline

• A Queer Premiere: Jean Cocteau’s The Typewriter Archived 2017-04-17 at the Wayback Machine Part of the first chapter of the book The Drama of Fallen France: Reading la Comedie sans Tickets (2012) by Kenneth Krauss. Describes the scandal after the premiere.

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