Word: moli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roger Planchon directs one of the leading companies of France during its visit to the Vivian Beaumont Theater for the Lincoln Center Festival '68. Dumas Pere's The Three Musketeers and two Molière classics, George Dandin and Tartuffe, will be playing through July...
...National Arts Council grants, not a dime of which can be traced in the amateur-night stagecraft of its cast and directors. Last week the N.R.T. appeared on Broadway with dramatic choices that were varied in content yet reflected the standard repertory mentality: combine one old classic (Molière's The Imaginary Invalid) with one serious American play (O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet) and sandwich in a filler of froth (Noel Coward's Tonight...
...N.R.T. stooped to conquer Molière by condescension. Rarely trusting the playwright's lines to speak for themselves, the company gimmicked up the play with whoops and simpers, vaudeville pratfalls and putty noses. Invalid takes off after doctors and their gullible patients with a Shavian vengeance. But Molière's prey is not his purpose. Like all masters of high comedy, he essentially diagnoses man's incurable diseases-vanity, pretension and folly. The bell-capped revelers of the N.R.T. are blind to this underlying gravity...
...when I die." She lived alone in an apartment in her remaining years, bedridden and arthritic, having daily contact only with her maid Yacinta. At week's end she was buried next to Gertrude in Paris' famed Perè Lachaise Cemetery, where also lie such luminaries as Molière, Proust, Chopin and Delacroix...
...Seattle Repertory Theater, formed in 1963, plays Molière and Tennessee Williams. The creditable Seattle Symphony plays to S.R.O. audiences in the city's five-year-old cultural center, and the Seattle Opera Association's fledgling company has packed the house for most of its three seasons, attracting such singers as James McCracken and Joan Sutherland to perform with its relatively unknown local talent...