Theatre Productions
Performance Dates
October 10-12, 17-19, 2002
Artistic Staff
Director: Mischelle McIntosh
Designer: Donald N.C. Jones
Synopsis
The plot concerns the classic conflict of love and money. The miser Harpagon wishes his daughter Elise to marry a wealthy old man, Anselme, who will accept her without a dowry, but she loves the penniless Valère. Harpagon himself has set his eye on young, impoverished Mariane, whom his son Cléante also loves. Much of the play’s action focuses on Harpagon’s stinginess. Valère and Mariane are revealed to be Anselme’s long-lost children, and they are happily paired with the miser’s son and daughter by the play’s end, after Harpagon insists that Anselme pay for both weddings.
Although The Miser is usually considered to be a comedy, its tone is one of absurdity and incongruity rather than of gaiety. The play, based on the Aulularia of Roman comic playwright Plautus, recasts the ancient comic figure of the miser who is inhuman in his worship of money and all too human in his need for respect and affection.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
Genre
Comedy
City
Cedarville, Ohio, United States of America
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Theatre and Performance Studies
Keywords
Miser, Molière, Cedarville University, theatre
Recommended Citation
"The Miser" (2002). Theatre Productions. Book 24.
https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/theatre_productions/24
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