Le Soulier de satin (The Satin Slipper, 1924), divided into four acts and 52 scenes, is the culminating work of French poet, dramatist and diplomat Paul Claudel. Eleven hours are needed to perform the whole work, whose monumental scope has rarely been seen in Western drama. Adopting a biographical point of view, Antoine Vitez emphasizes the theatricalization/ carnivalization aspect of the play, so that the three axes of the production-theatricalization/ carnivalization, politics/economy/religion, and autobiography/desires-can be systematically revealed in order to highlight its metadiscourse of theatricalization vs. transcendence. Due to the tremendous dimension of the Satin Slipper, this paper analyzes only the first act in order to clarify the thread of thought of the mise en scène.