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In this wildly distinctive comedy set in 17th-century France, a vulgar and impossibly self-obsessed writer/perfomer attempts to win the favour of a Royal Personage and ignominiously oust his high-minded rival. All is accomplished in a virtuoso cascade of rhyming couplets! La Bete won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy when it first opened in London in 1992, with Alan Cumming in the lead. It was revived in London's West End in 2010 with a cast including Mark Rylance, Joanna Lumley and David Hyde Pierce.
DAVID HIRSON was born in New York City and educated at Yale and Oxford universities. La Bête (1991) has been staged in New York, London and Paris, winning three major awards in New York and an Olivier in London. Wrong Mountain premiered in New York in 2000.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Written in a blaze of rhyming couplets, La Bete is an exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.Elomire, high-minded head of the Royal theatre troupe, is incensed. His patron, the Princess, has decreed that the Court ensemble admit a new actor the scandalously boorish street entertainer, Valere. With Elomire's pride and the troupe's livelihood on the line, the company is duty-bound not only to accept the outrageous troubadour, but to perform one of his ludicrous plays, an event that has dramatic consequences for them all.David Hirson's La Bete opened on Broadway in February 1991 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, and had its UK premiere at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 1992.A new production, directed by Matthew Warchus and starring Mark Rylance, opened at the Comedy Theatre in the West End in June 2010, and subsequently transferred to Broadway.'A gutsy, genuinely original writer who revels in extremes of intellectual virtuosity and pop culture savvy' Newsday'A tour-de-force that dazzles the audience' Time Out'Wow! Grown-up panto, clever and deep. you'll never see anything quite like it again' The Times'This is a play that is all about language. It is clever without being highbrow. It treats the audience with intelligence but it is still accessible. Challenging, certainly but anyone brave enough to take this on would surely find the experience most rewarding' Amateur StageBest New Comedy, Olivier Awards An exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781848421141
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