Written by David Ives. Based on La Metromanie by Alexis Piron. Directed by Marjorie Hayes. Produced by David Hunt Stafford for Theatre Forty.Metromaniacs arent people who are crazy about subways. They are people who are nuts about poetry, i.e. verse composed in meter. David Ives play The Metromaniacs is an English language adaptation of a French farce from 1738, La Metromaie, and it is set in Paris in that year, a moment when there was a particular craze for poetry. Ives play is performed in English, in rhyming couplets.Would-be poet Damis has fallen in love with the works of a mysterious Breton poetess, not knowing that she is really Francalou, a middle-aged gentleman. Meanwhile, Damiss non-literary friend Dorante has fallen in love with Francalous daughter, Lucille, who mistakes her new suitor for her favorite poetDamis! Add to the chaos some scheming servants, pseudonyms, and disguises, and there is much to untangle before love-plots are resolved and a happy ending found. With his sparkling wit and brilliant sense of comedic timing, David Ives brings a new shine to this lost classic.
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Norm Foster has been called 'the Neil Simon of Canada.' The remarkably prolific author of 54 plays (with more on the way) is Canada's most popular and successful playwright. He's Theatre 40's favorite playwright, too. His new play will be the sixth that we've produced. The king of Canadian comedy is letting us produce the World Premiere engagement of A Clean Brush.
Metromaniacs aren't people who are crazy about subways. They are people who are nuts about poetry, i.e. verse composed in meter. David Ives' play The Metromaniacs is an English language adaptation of a French farce from 1738, La Metromaie, and it is set in Paris in that year, a moment when there was a particular craze for poetry. Ives' play is performed in English, in rhyming couplets.
Theatre 40, the award-winning professional theatre company in Beverly Hills, announces its fifty-sixth season.
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Jelly's Last Jam
Pasadena Playhouse (5/29 - 6/23) | ||
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Sally Field Performing Arts Center (6/1 - 6/9) | ||
Change The Game
McCadden (6/9 - 6/16) NEW MUSICAL
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FRIDA-Stroke of Passion- IMMERSIVE
CASA 0101 theater (5/31 - 6/9) LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN
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Poets Jazz House Presents Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology
Hudson Guild Theatre (6/8 - 6/28)
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Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology
Willie Agee Playhouse (3/28 - 5/27) | ||
Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (11/12 - 6/16) | ||
Parlour Games
Broadwater: Second Stage (6/11 - 6/21) | ||
Jenny Lind Presents P.T. Barnum
Asylum@ Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre (6/26 - 6/30) | ||
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