The Misanthrope
Play Description
In this delightful comedy about the French aristocracy, told with Molière’s signature wit, the atmosphere is frivolous, the morals are loose, the egos are larger than life and everyone is looking for love. Constance Congdon’s adaptation of this intelligent satire is both provocative and funny.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
- Reviews
- About the Author(s)
- About the Book
- Special Notes
- Productions
Press Quotes
“Love is all bad sonnets, big fluffy beds and silly preening in the first half of THE MISANTHROPE … Then the gloves come off … and the characters are fighting for their lives. Molière’s 1666 comedy about yearning for truth and love in a world of self-serving hypocrites never falls out of fashion … The play is recast here in a tonic new verse version by Constance Congdon … This is a world … where words do all the damage. Playwright Congdon (TALES OF THE LOST FORMICANS) has done an exemplary job of making that language count. Her rhymes are not as elegant as those in Richard Wilbur’s standard verse translation, and that’s the point. There’s a lean angularity in her lines, a flashing sense of purpose.” —Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
Book Information
Publisher | BPPI |
---|---|
Publication Date | 12/9/2016 |
Pages | 88 |
ISBN | 9780881456806 |
Special Notes
If original stage producers credits appear in bold below, all licensees are required to include them in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:
Originally produced by ACT, San Francisco
In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypub.com