Orpheus, original title Orphée, is a stage play written by Jean Cocteau, produced in Paris 1926 by Georges Pitoëff and Ludmilla Pitoëff, with decors by Jean Hugo and costumes by Coco Chanel.
There is a mirror on the left wall and at stage rear a white horse, protruding from a niche.
Eurydice expresses her jealousy for the supernatural nag who takes so much of her husband's time.
Orpheus angrily replies that the horse brings him phrases from the unknown that are more astonishing than all the poems in the world.
Orpheus enters the poem in a contest but the judges are infuriated because the initial letters of the words spell "MERDE" (English: "SHIT").