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freely adapted from "Le Mariage de Figaro" by Beaumarchais He’s getting married in the morning, and the enterprising Figaro (servant, barber, professional troublemaker) couldn’t be happier. But with everybody scheming to come between him and his bride, Figaro will need all his cunning to make it down the aisle. This new adaptation of Beaumarchais’s comic masterpiece is not only hilariously funny, but has a razor sharp political edge. New York Times "Critic's Pick! ★ ‘Figaro’ The playwright Charles Morey rescues Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’s late-18th century comedy “The Marriage of Figaro” from the shadow of its more celebrated operatic incarnation with this witty new adaptation for the Pearl Theater Company, inaugurating the classical troupe’s new home on West 42nd Street. Directed with a light touch and an infectious wink by Hal Brooks, the farce takes aim at ruling-class entitlement just as surely today as it did in pre-Revolution France..." |
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by Charles MoreySearch
