‘Moliere Than Thou’ premiers Friday
Do you have any plans for tonight? Why not see the one-man show, “Moliere Than Thou?” “Moliere Than Thou,” featuring actor and playwright Tim Mooney, is a series of adapted monologues from some of the French playwright Moliere’s most famous work. A 17th century playwright, Moliere wrote his plays to mock social manners, doctors and lawyers.
Mooney said “whether the topic was religion, women’s rights (or) tyranny.Moliere managed to say what people had been thinking for years.Moliere gave a voice to the people.”
“This gives Moli?re the perfect opportunity to explain his process of working on these plays, while managing to take a few deft stabs at some of his enemies: The doctors, the lawyers and the sanctimonious hypocrites of the court of Louis XIV who would attack him throughout the years,” Mooney said, in a press release about the performance.
For this presentation, Mooney adapted monologues from the plays “The Misanthrope,” “The School For Wives,” “The Bourgeois Gentleman,” “Tartuffe,” “Don Juan,” “The Doctor in Spite of Himself,” “The Imaginary Invalid,” “The Imaginary Cuckold,” “The Schemings of Scapin and “The Precious Young Maidens.” Mooney plays the roles of characters from each of the plays with audience of volunteers needed in “Tartuffe,”
“The Imaginary Invalid” and “The Schemings of Scapin.”
In this performance, Mooney as Moliere, is left without a cast when all of his fellow performers suffer from food poisoning. Rather than refunding the box office money, Moliere instead gives a “‘greatest hits,’of sorts,” and has the audience occasionally participate in the presentation.
Mooney has adapted 14 of Moliere’s plays, and they have been produced in Canada. From coast to coast Mooney has given several productions in Canada, Massachusetts, Colorado, Texas, Iowa, Ohio and Wisconsin in the last year.
Mooney will be at the Max Noah Recitial Hall Friday, Oct. 11 at 8 p.m. General admission is $10. Tickets for senior citizens, non-GC&SU students and GC&SU faculty and staff will be $6. GC&SU students with a valid ID will be allowed in free. For more information, contact the Georgia College & State University Department of Music and Theatre, (478) 445-4226.
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on Oct 11 2002. Filed under Other.
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