Toronto Premiere
Molière’s fierce satire about personal and aesthetic integrity is set in today’s celebrity culture machine. Despite the Misanthrope’s biting critique of the film industry, he has fallen in love with a rising starlet. Torn between desire and unflinching morality, our contemporary anti-hero strikes out at hypocrisy in a world shamelessly built on it. Will love or misanthropy triumph?
120 minutes with one intermission.
Videos
Articles
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The Misanthrope is a savage satire of 17th-century French society.
Its translator explains why he chose to update it to modern-day Britain
- and how he got a little help from Moliére himself. A blog post from the guardian.co.uk -
Kiss-kiss Moliére
- Adaptation of The Misanthrope is set in gossipy world of glitterati. An interview with Stuart Hughes in NOW Magazine.
Cast and Crew
- by Molière
- in a version by Martin Crimp
- directed by Richard Rose
- starring
Patrick Galligan,
Stephen Gartner, Michelle Giroux, Stuart Hughes, Brandon McGibbon, Julian Richings, Maria Ricossa,
Andrea Runge and David Storch - set and costume design by
Charlotte Dean - lighting design by Andrea Lundy
- sound design and composition by
Mike Ross - stage manager Marinda de Beer
- apprentice stage manager Kate Sandeson
- fight director John Stead
- photographer Cylla von Tiedemann