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...APA REPERTORY COMPANY races through Moliere's The Misanthrope with a light touch and airy style but gets bogged down by the heavily symbolic psychological poetry of T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party...
...APA REPERTORY COMPANY presides over two drawing rooms. In the Louis XIV salon of The Misanthrope, they are at ease with Molière's verse spoof of hypocrisy in higher society. But they appear awkward amidst the English modern of a fashionable London flat, where T. S. Eliot's metaphysical comedy, The Cocktail Party, takes place...
...APA REPERTORY COMPANY whizzes through Moliere's The Misanthrope with a light touch and airy style but gets bogged down by the heavily symbolic, psychological poetry of T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party...
...APA REPERTORY COMPANY offers two drawing-room comedies in verse. Moliere's The Misanthrope is as deliciously vicious a lampoon of the manners and meanness of Louis XIV's court as it was 300 years ago, and it is performed with panache. But T. S. Eliot's 1950 spiritual parable, The Cocktail Party, seems stilted and stale in a limp production...
...time when theatrical fashion seems to be running toward staged freak-outs and ad-libido dialogue, the APA Repertory Company chose two drawing-room comedies for the first productions of its 1968-69 Manhattan season. Each of them, moreover, is in verse: T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party and Molière's The Misanthrope. It was a brilliantly offbeat dramatic selection, but there, unfortunately, APA's brilliance ran out. The staging of the Eliot play is so inadequate that it points up weaknesses of the play that were not so apparent in the more religiously...