Word: bogarting
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This is the plot of Pierre Carlet de Chamberlain de Marivaux’s eighteenth century comedy, La Dispute, translated by Resident Dramaturg Gideon Lester and directed by Anne Bogart at the American Repertory Theatre...
...former veteran of the company, Bogart was invited back to Cambridge last year and given her pick of productions for the ART show. When she couldn’t get copyright permissions for her first choice, she settled on La Dispute, which—like all of Marivaux’s plays—deals with the battle of the sexes. In this one, Bogart said, the playwright finally “found the vessel” for everything he hoped to say about eros and civilization...
...aise, La Dispute had only a one-night run; Marivaux has languished in obscurity for some two hundred years since. While critics generally acknowledged the characters’ witty dialogue, they have dismissed Marivaux’s works as light, fluffy and superficial—a perception which Bogart hopes to counteract...
...That’s something alums always come here and talk about,” says present-day owner Ned Hinkle. “Classes in the 50s and 60s were always blowing off exams to come see Bogart...
Legacies of the trend survive in the Square—the restaurant and bar Casablanca, located below the theater, was named in honor of the Bogart tradition...