The Misanthrope
From: Tuesday, 26th March 2013
To: Saturday, 30 March 2013
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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:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 28 March 2013
One can admire Alceste's tunnel-vision attitude to social hypocrisy but that doesn't mean that one warms to him. Roger McGough has completed his hat-trick of Molière adaptations with a version of Le Misanthrope, which cocks its own snook at verse patterns, Restoration comedy stage conventions, and the whole panoply of male-female relationships. Overall, it's a clever piece of what a programme note refers to as "McGoughière".Colin Tierney's Alceste is a very fine characterisation of a man who knows what's right, does it and then has to live with the consequences. His beloved, flirtatious Célimène, is Zara Tempest-Walters, who looks the part but somehow lacks the warmth underneath the socialite exterior that must first have attracted Alceste. Joining her in the salon for scandal are Daniel Goode as the would-be poet Oronte as well as Leander Deeny and George Potts as the most fluffy and flowery of sybaritic courtiers, Clitandre and Ac...
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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