What a great privilege to see Mark Rylance twice in one year. La Bête was super funny, with Rylance’s thirty minute soliloquy the stand out.
Unlike the god awful Misanthrope, the cast used the rhyming verse effectively and without laboring the point. All were good, including the “stars” from TV. The direction and set were also great.
That’s how it should be.
Yes, I agree. Though there was a point in the soliloquy when I said out loud, ‘just SHUT UP’ (not all that quitely) because I was so frustrated…. Elomire is a nice anagram, of course, but we weren’t so sure about Valere.
Hehe. At least you didn’t want to throttle him. Am I beginning to detect a pattern of unintended vocalisations?