The Misanthrope
From: Friday, 15th February 2013
To: Saturday, 9 March 2013
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
The Misanthrope is set in the celebrity world of the arts and media. The play revolves around Alceste who hates hypocrisy and whose determination to tell the truth becomes as destructive as his friends' instinct to avoid it.
Our Review:
20 February 2013
Revenons à nos moutons: in M. McGough’s brilliant partnership with M. Moliere, Messrs Marquises Acaste and Clitandre (George Pott and Leander Deeny) could make a pair of glam rockers have a hissy fit – when they do, it sparks applause from the audience.
Similarly, an eloquent tirade from silly ass Oronte (Daniel Goode), whilst each stumbling cameo from Dubois (Neil Caple), hard working donkey of a manservant, was acknowledged. What with Harvey Virdi’s Arsinoé, a kind of Black Widow, gentle Eliante (Alison Pargeter), who is a bit of a goose, and Zara Temopest-Walters as splendid but bitchy Célimène, it’s a right menagerie.
Plain-speaking poet Alceste is himself stubborn as a mule, oblivious to Philinte’s sensible suggestions (eloquent stalwart, Simon Coates). Colin Tierney accomplishes the difficult feat of making likeable a man who dislikes everybody. He cannot accept that Society draws a very ...
Cast
Neil Caple
Simon Coates
Leander Deeny
Daniel Goode
Alison Pargeter
George Potts
Zara Tempest-Walters
Colin Tierney
Harvey Virdi
Creative
Moliere (Author)
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse (Producer)
English Touring Theatre (Producer)
Roger McGough (Adaptation)
Gemma Bodinetz (Director)
Michael Taylor (Design)
Fergus O'Hare (Sound)
Paul Keogan (Lighting)
Peter Coyte (Music)
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