(I started this post a few weeks ago but never put it up. Sorry, Momma.)
Last weekend Educo took a group of us to La Comedie Française, which is housed in the Palais Royal, a smaller complex across the street from the Louvre. It's where Louis XIV grew up and later where Molière put on most of his plays. For that reason, the house troupe continues to specialize in Molière.
L'Avare tells a story about a miser who manages to ruin the love lives of his two children in the space of about five minutes. The lovers then spend the rest of the play scheming to get their father to change his mind. They fail, but, like most (all?) Molière plays, there's a happy ending anyway -- call it Louis ex machina.
Educo gave us all copies of the play to read our first week in France but not many people got through it. It wasn't a problem though because swooning translates pretty well.
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