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Full-Length Play / 2w, 9m
Jean Baptiste Molière, Tony Harrison
Translated by Tony Harrison
Tony Harrison has set his version exactly three hundred years after the first performance of Le Misanthrope in 1666. This transposition to the "reign" of Charles de Gaulle helps to clarify the truly human dilemmas in the play so often obscured behind the frills and stiffness of traditional …
Tony Harrison has set his version exactly three hundred years after the first performance of Le Misanthrope in 1666. This transposition to the "reign" of Charles de Gaulle helps to clarify the truly human dilemmas in the play so often obscured behind the frills and stiffness of traditional productions. In this version of Le Misanthrope he uses the same skills and energy in a way that at once reminds us of the original and allows us, perhaps for the first time in any version of the play, to grasp its essential theme.
Molière (1622-1673) was the leading French comic actor, stage director and dramatic theoretician of the 17th century.
Born Jean Baptiste Poquelin on January 15, 1622, he received his early education at the College de Clermont, a Jesuit school, becoming a promising scholar of ...