THE VISIBLE BUT INVISIBLE GEM.(Review) (theater review)

"How strange that, seeing you, I was unseeing. "--Andres (Horace), The Bungler (L'Etourdi) (1655), Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, translation by Richard Wilbur

When I told a gathering of dramaturgs and educators at the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas Conference last June that I was serving as the production dramaturg for the U.S. premiere of Moliere's first verse play, The Bungler (L'Etourdi), at Connecticut's Long Wharf Theatre, hundreds of dramaturgical eyebrows were raised suspiciously--in unison. I soon discovered that most of my colleagues had ...

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