Word: farcefest
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...Shapiro is currently a professor of Romance languages and literature at Wesleyan University and a renowned translator of French plays, poetry, and literature. Conveniently, his professional work tends to overlap with his work in Adams; he contributes to the House’s “French Farcefest,” which has occurred semiannually for the past 20 years. “They always seem to be translations of mine,” he says of past productions. The latest of these productions is “Léonie est en avance ou le mal joli?...
This weekend’s Adams House Pool Theatre production of “Take Her, She’s Yours! or Till Divorce Do Us Part” served up a fall Farcefest full of philandering, French-isms, foppishness, and fervor. This year’s on-stage fracas was as conflicted as its title, comically portraying the blurred line between marital bliss and marital blight. Unfortunately, in some parts of the performance, the line between “great” and “grating” was just as blurred...
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