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...season has been jolted into excitement by two savage and moving comedies, brilliantly played and directed. The authors: Molière and Jarry...
McCowen's philanthropist is a companion to Molière's misanthrope. Just as his philology leads him to like all words, regardless of meaning, his philanthropy leads him to like all people, regardless of individuality. In McCowen's characterization, the eager grin fades into a rictus of terror that others may not like him; the mildness is a mask for inadequacy. He is so nice that it hurts-himself and everyone around...
There the discipline proved as rigid as the convent's, with classical presentations of Racine, Corneille and Molière. But Geneviève could never quite adhere to any tradition. Two months before graduation, she was offered a part in a professional production of The Barber of Seville. She took a leap without a net. "A diploma can't get you work in the theater," she decided. "But a part can." It did. She took parts with a repertory company and caromed around Europe. In Paris, Director Alain Resnais was looking for a young girl...
...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...