La Bête (1991)

Written by David Hirson
Directed by Richard Jones
Cast: Dylan Baker, Johann Carlo, Michael Cumpsty, Holly Felton, James Greene, John Michael Higgins, Patricia Kilgarriff, Tom McGowan

La Bête is a 1991 comedy play by American playwright David Hirson. Written in rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter, the Molière-inspired story, set in 17th-century France, pits dignified, stuffy Elomire, the head of the royal court-sponsored theatre troupe, against the foppish, frivolous street entertainer Valere, whom the troupe's patron, Prince Conti, wishes them to bring aboard.

Theater

Eugene O'Neill Theatre · Broadway

Closed

March 2, 1991