The Learned Ladies Of Park Avenue
by Jean-baptiste Moliere, David Grimm from Les Femmes Savantes, David Grimm
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
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).
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Dramatists Play Service · 2006 · 72 pp
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