Word: moli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anabaptist and King John by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, three Shakespeares, two Sartres, Sophocles' Oedipus, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Shaw's Pygmalion, a Renaissance knockabout by Niccolò Machiavelli, a late 19th century melodrama by French Primitive Painter Henri Rousseau, works by Wilde, Sheridan and Molière-besides three plays by Czech author Karel Čapek and two carminative political satires by young Czech playwrights...
...REPERTORY COMPANY races through Richard Wilbur's lithe translation of Molière's The Misanthrope with a light touch. The best thing about the play is Brian Bedford's smug Acaste...
...REPERTORY COMPANY presides over two drawing rooms. In the Louis XIV salon of The Misanthrope, they are at ease with Molière's verse spoof of hypocrisy in higher society. But they appear awkward amidst the English modern of a fashionable London flat, where T. S. Eliot's metaphysical comedy, The Cocktail Party, takes place...
...theatrical fashion seems to be running toward staged freak-outs and ad-libido dialogue, the APA Repertory Company chose two drawing-room comedies for the first productions of its 1968-69 Manhattan season. Each of them, moreover, is in verse: T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party and Molière's The Misanthrope. It was a brilliantly offbeat dramatic selection, but there, unfortunately, APA's brilliance ran out. The staging of the Eliot play is so inadequate that it points up weaknesses of the play that were not so apparent in the more religiously oriented atmosphere...
AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER, San Francisco, will perform Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice, Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill, Tartuffe and The Misanthrope by Molière throughout the summer. Your Own Thing, Donald Driver's rock musical, plays through August...