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Molière's title was Les Fourberies de Scapin (roughly, Scapin's Knaveries), and the playwright borrowed the basic outlines of the story from a famous Roman play, Terence's Phormio. The Young Vic has switched the locale to Naples, and performs the work in the bouncy tradition of British vaudeville...
...comparison, Les Fourberies de Scapin (roughly, "Scapin's Knavery") is a farcical hellraiser, with its resourceful scamp of a hero-the traditionally pert and clever servant-engineering a whole repertory of deceptions with a full battery of slapstick. Based on a famous Roman play, Terence's Phormio, Les Fourberies is served up in the famous Italian style of the commedia dell' arte. For their sons' sake, Scapin hoodwinks two miserly fathers-one of whom, as the price of Scapin's saving his life, has offered him a coat "after I've worn...
...invitation of the Greek Department and with the aid of Harvard actors, presented an elaborate production of Sophocles' Electra to a packed Sanders Theatre. This began a tradition of classical extravaganzas which stirred tremendous enthusiasm at Harvard and throughout the area. The next few years saw production of Phormio and Ocpedipus Rex, culminating in a gigantic Agamemnon in the Stadium in 1908. In 1895 Sanders was transformed into an Elizabethan playhouse for Ben Johnson's The Silent Women. The year before, Union Hall in Boston was jammed to see the Cercle Francais produce Molicre...
...point, the Administration unwound and cancelled the customary rent for Sanders, a courtesy which it does not extend to current dramatic groups, so taken was it with the idea of sponsoring an American premiere of a classical play. It was the "Phormio" of Terence, in 1894, and all of literary Boston, as well as whatever scholars happened to be in other parts of the country, were invited to attend. Even President Cleveland (of the United States) was sent an invitation, and although he declined with regrets, the whole production came off with celat, socially as well as educationally...
...which has been at work on the production since last March, and is the fourth classical play to be given in the original language at Harvard. "Oedipus Tyrannus" was presented in 1881 with Owen Wister '82 in the cast and G. L. Kittredge '81 prompter. Thirteen years later the "Phormio" of Terence was given, with (now) Professor E. K. Rand '94 taking the leading role. The presentation of the "Agamemnon" in the Soldiers Field Stadium in 1906 was a brilliant spectacle...