‘Molière Than Thou’ features playwright's 'greatest hits'

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Tim Mooney, shown here as the
French playwright Molière, will
bring his one-man show "Molière
Than Thou" to the Performing
Arts Center at 8 p.m. Tuesday,
Nov. 11. Admission is free.

Theatre Northwest, the University’s dramatic arts program, will present internationally recognized classical actor Tim Mooney in his acclaimed one-man show “Molière than Thou” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, in the Performing Arts Center’s Mary Linn Auditorium. Admission is free.

Molière (1622-1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of Western literature’s great masters of the comedy of manners. His best-known works include “The Misanthrope,” “The School for Wives,” “Tartuffe,” “The Miser” and “The Bourgeois Gentleman.”

“Molière Than Thou,” in which Mooney appears as Molière, finds the playwright left without a cast after his fellow performers all consume "the same sort of shellfish" at a public inn.

Rather than refund the precious box office receipts, Molière offers to perform a “greatest hits" of sorts, and leads the audience (which occasionally participates) through a hilarious succession of favorite speeches from the plays.

"This gives Molière the perfect opportunity to explain his process of working on these plays, while managing to take a few deft stabs at some of his enemies: the doctors, the lawyers and the sanctimonious hypocrites who would attack him throughout the years,” Mooney says of the 90-minute production.

To visit Mooney’s Web site, go to www.moliere-in-english.com.

For more information, please contact:

Anthony Brown,
News Bureau Manager
E-Mail: abrown@nwmissouri.edu
Phone: 660.562.1704
Fax: 660.562.1900

Northwest Missouri State University
219 Administration Building,
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468

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