Word: lmpromptu
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...lmpromptu de Versailles and Les Fourberies de Scapin (by Molière) opened the Comédie Française' three-week visit at the City Center by happily passing up fanfare for fun. With such full-length classics as Molière's Tartuffe and Racine's Britannicus to follow, a troupe that matches polish with perkiness leaped in with minor Molière and made it seem, in a dreary season, a major evening even for those with shaky French. The two works, moreover, make a pleasant contrast...
...into production on Louis XIV's orders, L'Impromptu wags a finger in several directions: a little at the King for his capricious commands, a lot at Molière's enemy actors in a rival troupe, a lot more at acting itself. In L'lmpromptu, Molière personally directs the rehearsal, sketches actors' roles, silhouettes their shortcomings, and is now friendly, now irritable, now ironic amid travestied types of people and exaggerated modes of acting. With the Comédie Française players bringing a sense of style to their very distortions...
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