Le Lycanthrope

Directed by: Brendan Turk

Le Lycanthrope is an unofficial sequel to Le Misanthrope, by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere.
At the climax of Moliere's play, Alceste, the titular "Misanthrope" (hater of mankind), betrayed and ridiculed by the woman he loves, shamed and prosecuted by her other suitors, exits the stage in a Fury, vowing to live in the wilderness away from Parisian Society "where man is arrant wolf to man"; his friends Philinte and Eliante exit after him, determined to change his mind. End of play. Anbiguity. Does he leave, or not?

Le Lycanthrope begins on Halloween, 1673, with Alceste having returned from six years in the wilderness. He claims to be a "Lycanthrope", a WEREWOLF, and has come to exact Revenge upon the "Wolves Society" of his enemies. So he decides to throw a little Halloween Party...


warning:

This play is composed in rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter, employs extended metaphors, double-entendre, and puns; It may be unsuitable for persons unaccompanied by a sense of humour .




What ensues is Revenge-Farce with a Monster-Movie Groove.