Molière in the Park will present a re-imagined version of Molière's The Miser, translated and adapted by David Chambers, and directed by Molière in the Park's Founding Artistic Director Lucie ...
College of the Redwood’s lively, entertaining production of Moliere’s famous French farce, “The Miser,” is broadly played with riotous results by a talented cast of actors who are obviously having a ...
With appropriate vocal accompaniment, from between two French doors banked by classical columns, items of clothing, both male and female, fly onto the stage. A shirt, boots, a dress. Shortly afterward ...
This Molière in the Park production doesn’t have the sharp satirical bite of the original. By Elisabeth Vincentelli The support beam of theater in France, Molière is nowhere near as famous in the ...
Bridgerton meets Schitt’s Creek in 17th Century Paris as rich courtiers and their servants enjoy a hilarious romp by one of French literature’s most iconic writers. Known as the inventor of farce, ...
Money, money, money. It’s key to just about all of us, but for the title character in Moliere’s The Miser, Harpagon, it’s virtually the only thing that matters in life—so much so that he’s willing to ...
The French playwright’s satirical comedy, “The Miser,” first performed in 1668, gets the 21st-century treatment Park Slope’s Piper Theatre. It’s the same story about a man’s quest for social status, ...
How do you take a performance from 1668 and make it work for today’s audience? According to Scott Mullins, the director of “The Miser” and an adjunct faculty member for over 10 years in College of ...
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Though first performed in 1668, Molière's The Miser strikes director Dominique Serrand as thoroughly contemporary. "I choose a play because it calls to me," Serrand ...