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...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...
...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...
...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...