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.
To celebrate the 400-year anniversary of Molière’s birth, Fay Lomas directs an all-star rehearsed reading of his comedy about hypocrisy and puritanism.