State of Siege is a show in three parts. In the preface, the author points to his alleged co-author Jean-Louis Barrault, who conceived the idea of the play-myth about the plague. Camus also states that “this is not a play with a traditional structure, but a performance that deliberately takes as a principle a mixture of all dramatic forms of expression - from lyrical monologue to crowd scenes, including pantomime, ordinary dialogue, farce and chorus.