The Learned Ladies Of Park Avenue
by Jean-baptiste Moliere, David Grimm from Les Femmes Savantes, David Grimm

Name: The Learned Ladies Of Park Avenue
Brand: Jean-baptiste Moliere
SKU: 9780822221357

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Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

120 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings American Comedy

Synopsis

THE STORY: A jazz-age screwball comedy riff on Molière's biting satire of pretense and learning.

Betty wants to marry Dicky.

Her mother Phyllis, a self-proclaimed intellectual and political activist, has another man in mind--namely, the hack poet an

Press Reviews

"A brave, brainy and barmy revision of Molière…An elegantly composed variation on a society comedy from art deco Hollywood. Grimm reflects on our own neoconservative plots to undo the New Deal.” —Hartford Courant. ”Dramatic verse is not just alive and well on the cutting edge of theatre but thriving in David Grimm's spanking new THE LEARNED LADIES OF PARK AVENUE…A rare but welcome bird in contemporary theatre.“ —New Haven Register. ”Roll over Cole Porter."
— Boston Globe

Publication

Publisher Dramatists Play Service

Year 2006

Binding Paperback

Pages 72

Place New York, NY

Language English

ISBN-13 9780822221357

ISBN-10 0822221357

LCCN 2008540951

LCC MLCS 2008/43571 (P)

The Learned Ladies Of Park Avenue is a American comedy play written by Jean-baptiste Moliere and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York, NY (2006).