La Bete
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 14, 2010
Closed Jan 9, 2011
Opened Oct 14, 2010
Closed Jan 9, 2011
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Running Time:
1hr. 45min.
1hr. 45min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
American playwright David Hirson's rollicking 1991 play, La Bete, is a comic tour de force about Elomire (David Hyde Pierce), a high-minded classical dramatist who loves only the theater, and Valere (Mark Rylance), a low-brow street clown who loves only himself. When the fickle princess (Joanna Lumley) decides she's grown weary of Elomire's royal theatre troupe, he and Valere are left fighting for survival as art squares off with ego in a literary showdown for the ages.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
Your mileage may vary
Its a play awash in grays and ambiguity. its painful in places, a bit of a writers dialogue with himself but by the end, I suspected we had seen a full reversal- that Rylance had played the fool to size up his rival and push him towards his downfall.
Reviewed by mantennashowers
on Friday, Feb 18th, 2011
wished I would have chosen another play
I see quite a bit of theater on Broadway & off and feel this is a play that would have benefitted immensely by editing! Talented actors not utilized to their talents, wonderful set & beautiful costuming... and we left feeling disappointed we had spent the evening there. I agree wholeheartedly with rube2424. Unfortunately there was quite a bit of beating a dead horse in this play. I might have felt differently had they chopped 30 minutes out of the play.
Reviewed by lisadhome
on Wednesday, Nov 10th, 2010
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Mark Rylance dazzled audiences with his high-octane physicality in the recent Broadway revival of Boeing-Boeing, and the Tony Award-winning actor proves to be equally astonishing in Matthew Warchus' often hilarious revival of David Hirson's 1991 rhyming-verse play,
La Bete, now at the Music Box.
An actor capable of achieving whatever he aims to do within a proscenium, Rylance plays Valere, a buffoonish actor-playwright in 17th-century France who has been commanded by the Princess (Joanna Lumley) to join an acting troupe headed by court favorite Elomire (David Hyde Pierce).
As Valere retires after dinner to talk to Elomire and aide Bejart (Stephen Ouimette) in Elomire's library (desig[...]