Word: moli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweet heaven." By insisting on being cool and levelheaded, Grizzard removes the nervous system of the play; by insisting that Hamlet be normal, he makes he one demand that the most complex character in English drama cannot meet. The Miser, by Molière, the Guthne troupe's second offering, almost visibly chased away the lingering ghost of a sad Hamlet. Director Douglas Campbell has made a stylized harlequinade of Molière's comedy of avarice, with curtsying dances and puckish pratfalls, Halloween masks and wopsical hats. It is more a costume ball than a play...
Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College Area Amphitheater: Moliėre's The Doctor in Spite of Himself...
...some sort of festival, and new ones are started every year. But today there is an increasing shift in emphasis to the drama. From the indoor stages of Scandinavia to the open-air théâtres antiques of Roman Provence, there is a heady international mosaic. Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, for example, will be done in Lallan Scots accents at Edinburgh (hoot, monsieur...
...something different. Looking lithe, gamin, even apache in a very modern way, Hirsch is fun-loving but hardbitten, a kind of acrobatic con man, up to every trick, on to every wile, physically all bounce, mentally all barbed wire. Hirsch's Scapin seems even more resourceful than Molière's, and on a stage full of antique, chattering magpies and grinning dolls and grimacing puppets, he is a kind of unpredictable mechanical toy with, at moments, shock value as well as spin...
Comedie Francaise. In its first U.S. visit since 1955, the 300-year-old national company alternates works by Molière, Racine and Feydeau...