LE MISANTHROPE
by Molière
"When good Americans die," said Oscar Wilde, "they go to Paris." For anyone who has not planned on the trip, there is the Comédie-Française, a glorious traveling museum that has been presenting French classical drama for 299 years and sees little sense in breaking up a winning combination. A fortnight ago the Comédie opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Molière's Le Misanthrope as part of a four-week visit to New York and Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. It will also present Feydeau's La Puce à l'Oreille (A Flea in Her Ear) and Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias.
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