Miser, The
- Full Length Play, Comedy, 17th Century
- 10M, 3F
- ISBN: 9781854597489
Molière's story of a covetous old miser, obsessively protecting his hoard of gold and neglecting his long-suffering children.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- Time Period: 17th Century
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Flexible
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre
Harpagon is obsessed with the wealth he has amassed and always ready to save expenses. Now a widower, he has a son, Cléante, and a daughter, Élise. Although he is over sixty, he is attempting to marry his son's own sweetheart, Mariane.
But it seems that Harpagon's pinchpenny paranoia is finally catching up with him – his gold is missing, and this time it might really have disappeared for good...
The Miser was first performed in 1668, at the theatre of the Palais-Royal, Paris.
This English version, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic series, is translated and introduced by Martin Sorrell.
Characters
- Casting: 10M, 3F
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