Jean-Pierre Martinez

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When two candidates in a local by-election cremate their spouses on election day, conditions are rife for spoiled ballots and stray bullets. Especially when the funeral director's newly hired temp has a mind of her own... Jean-Pierre Martinez is a French playwright and scriptwriter. He experienced first the stage as a drummer in various rock bands, before to become a semiologist in the field of advertising. He worked afterwards as television scriptwriter, and came back to the stage as a playwright. He wrote 74 comedies. Today he is among the most played contemporaries playwrights in France, and several of his plays have been translated in English, Spanish and Portuguese.