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...that “it is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.” Over three centuries and several thousand miles away, the Harvard students who are bombarded daily with a plethora of fine words—including, from time to time, Molière??s own—are still waiting for administrators to digest his message...
...repliesA to the council’s questions, Kirby emphasized the breadth of the College curricular re??view he kicked off earlier this month...
...hands of the Huntington, unfortunately, the play does not get any better. The translation by Pulitzer-prize winning poet Richard Wilbur is surprisingly banal. One might expect more from the leading English translator of Molière??s comedies. But whereas Molière is famous for an elegant wit, Wilbur gives us only broad, limerick-like verse. This is by no means helped by the shortcomings of the production’s actors. There exist plenty of prose translations of Amphitryon; why director Darko Tresnjak didn’t opt for one of these remains a mystery...
...fact, the entire production shares this problem. David P. Gordon’s opulent set design, rich in golds and imperial blues, wants to be reminiscent of the grand production Molière??s comedy first received at the Palais-Royal in 1668. But its inspiration seems to lie more in the gaudy extravagance of Broadway hits like The Lion King than in the theater of 17th century France. When seen in combination with Linda Cho’s stylized costuming and Frances Aronson’s over-reliance on primary colors in lighting the play, one might...
...Informed by Zeus of his nefarious doings and of Alcmena’s pregnancy with a child named Hercules, the couple end the play bewildered and dejected. But given the shortcomings of the preceding two hours, this ending doesn’t serve as a contrast to Molière??s comedic treatment of the subject matter. Instead, it embodies the audience’s reaction all along...