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Published on 6/17/08
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Survey
79 E 4th St
(between Bowery and Second Ave)
East Village
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212-239-6200
Subway: F, V to Lower East Side–Second Ave; 6 to Astor Pl | Directions
Tickets: $65 ($20 on Sunday evenings)
Food and garbage—both ends of consumerism—figure heavily in Belgian director Ivo van Hove’s radical, wildly unpredictable multimedia staging of Molière’s harshly satirical 1622 classic (adapted by Tony Harrison) about gossip and status in a cynical society. The director has guided his bold cast—led by the volcanic Bill Camp and the nervy, nuanced Jeanine Serralles—into fierce, blistering performances; his vision of love and society is both fatalistic and purifyingly extreme.—DC
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Oct 30 2007 7pm .
mystic
Sat, Oct 20, 07, at 10:48pm
Should be defined by the Geneva Conventions as a form of torture.
A "live" screening supposed to be synchronised with the real actors' mouthing is so distracting and annoying -- much like a badly dubbed foreign film-- that I was forced to close my eyes. When ever amateurs try the classics they resort to gimmicks to distract you and this is so here.The actors could not be heard distinctly, and this is combined with ghastly overacting and nonfunny rubbishy embarrassing direction. The movie "Moliere", a masterpiece, was everything this is not. Pure junk. I walked out after 40 minutes.
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