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Through August 14: "Boubouroche and Other Farces" by Georges Courteline. In the Hotel Bostonian...
...kinds of good things must be said for the present production. It is a delight, especially in the pocket-sized theatre of the Hotel Bostonian, decked out in appropriate Gallic style. With Offenbach in the background and designer Robert Wells' curtain a la Toulouse-Lautrec, it out-Montmartres Montmartre, all very pleasantly. The excellent staging of director Alan J. Levitt--who, by the way, is obviously well acquainted with the French touch--overcomes the problem of space, which could be acute if any of his fine company were claustrophobic. And it is a fine company. Robin Ramsay, as La Brige...
Such is the case with the two farces by Georges Courteline currently being offered by the Actors Playhouse, at the Hotel Bostonian. Article 330, the curtain-raiser, is one of a number of brief but biting anti-legal playlets by Courteline, inspired by much the same distaste for juridical hoopla underlying Daumier's Gens de Justice and countless other examples of esprit gaulois from Mantre Pathelin to the present. La Brige, harassed hero of several Courteline comedies, finds himself at odds with Justice for violation of the article in the Civil Code forbidding indecent exposure. But this is no scabrous...
...satirical farces constitute the season's second offering by the recently formed Actors' Playhouse, opening tomorrow evening for a three-week run at the Hotel Bostonian...
History's greatest specialist in creating stage comedy, Moliere, has been chosen for the inaugural production of a newly formed theatrical group, the Actors Playhouse of Boston, Inc. The players are making use of an intimate and attractive gree-and-gold theatre designed by Raymond Sovey in the Hotel Bostonian, and tailored to accommodate an audience of ninety-five...