From the archives…

THE MISANTHROPE (Quintessence): What’s not to like?

I hope one day to see (and understand) a Moliere play in the original French, though as I’m not doing anything about that desire except letting my scant French knowledge wither, unpracticed, for the foreseeable future I’ll have to settle for English-language adaptations. Martin Crimp’s translation of THE MISANTHROPE, now in production by Quintessence Theatre Group, transports Moliere’s satire of hypocrisy in the social mores of 17th century French aristocracy to a celebrity modern-day London. (Although Quintessence might have quite easily transported it a little further, to NYC, and avoided the distractions of dialect.