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The Bourgeois Gentleman
Molière
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The Bourgeois Gentleman of the title is a middle-class social climber, assured that by learning all the arts of a true and noble gentleman, he shall truly become one. This enables Moliere to satire both the pretentious middle class and the snobbish aristocracy all at one time. Originally presented in 1670 before the court of Louis the 14th with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, it was more recently re-choreographed by George Balanchine to music by Strauss. This will be a purely spoken version of the original.
The Bourgeois Gentleman of the title is a middle-class social climber, assured that by learning all the arts of a true and noble gentleman, he shall truly become one. This enables Moliere to satire both the pretentious middle class and the snobbish aristocracy all at one time. Originally presented in 1670 before the court of Louis the 14th with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, it was more recently re-choreographed by George Balanchine to music by Strauss. This will be a purely spoken version of the original.
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PHILOSOPHY MASTER: What's happening? What's the matter, gentlemen.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: They have got into a rage over the superiority of their professions to the point of injurious words and of wanting to come to blows.
PHILOSOPHY MASTER: What! Gentlemen, must you act this way? Haven't you read the learned treatise that Seneca composed on anger? Is there anything more base and more shameful than this passion, which turns a man into a savage beast? And shouldn't reason be the mistress of all our activities?
DANCING MASTER: Well! Sir, he has just abused both of us by, despising the dance, which I practice, and music, which is his profession.
PHILOSOPHY MASTER: A wise man is above all the insults that can be spoken to him; and the grand reply one should make to such outrages is moderation and patience.
FENCING MASTER: They both had the audacity of trying to compare their profe. . . Read More
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Ein erneut aberwitziges Spiel menschlicher Torheiten und Einbildungen, die Moliere so gekonnt künstlerisch und humorvoll spielen läßt, dass debei die Lachmuskeln stark angeregt werden. Ein Artist von seltener Gabe und ein Menschenkenner, der sich indessen nicht scheute den unserer Spezies eigentümli
Ok, so I did not read this in French and therefore am afraid that a bunch of the wit got lost in translation. There is enough however (despite the full-on mastery of a language in this whimsical play) that is universal here to still feel relevant. It's so impressively relevant in fact, some 400 year
Sve je ovde precizno i kristalno jasno i školski podobno i nema šta tu posebno da se doda, osim da bi možda bilo zanimljivo izvođenje u kome bi silni učitelji veština bili transformisani u PR menadžere i (s)lične trenere, a gdin Žurden bi bio novopečeni bogataš i priučeni direktor ogromne firme u ko
The best thing about this book was that we read it aloud as a class while I was studying in a castle in the Czech Republic.
It was a rainy day during the Five-Petaled Rose Festival and we were all in Renaissance costume, seated around the table in the study centre, each reading out a role. There wer
Çok güzel bir oyun.
Tiyatro ile ilgilenen herkesn okumuş ve hatta izlemiş olması lazım.
Hatta ilginç detay; yıllar once Fransa lideri ziyarete gelen Türk temsilcilerine karşı bir iyi niyet gösterisi olması adına Moliere'e ısmarlamış bu oyunu. Dolayısıyla oyun içerisinde çok fazla Türk motifleri var.