La Bête
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 7, 2010
Closed Sep 4, 2010
Opened Jul 7, 2010
Closed Sep 4, 2010
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American playwright David Hirson's rollicking 1991 play, La Bête, 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. Matthew Warchus directs.
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Matthew Warchus' entertaining revival of David Hirson's verse play, La Bête, is currently playing the West End for a short run before an immediate transfer to Broadway's Music Box Theatre.
Set in 17th century France, Hirson's play pits artistic integrity against an encroaching trend of populism. It is in part a pastiche of Moliere, and is told entirely in rhyming couplets. Elomire (David Hyde Pierce), the high-minded, favoured playwright of the court, is appalled to receive a writ forcing him to accept Valere (Mark Rylance), a rowdy street entertainer, into his acting troupe.
The opening scene takes the form of an almost entirely uninterrupted monologue from the verbally incontine[...]