Molière
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Oct 27, 2026
Guy BranumGUEST
It's so interesting because the misanthrope is famously a play, but...
Guy BranumGUEST
Racine play? Not Racine, but Moliere.
Guy BranumGUEST
It's a Moliere play.
Guy BranumGUEST
But I didn't know what Strindberg's association with misogyny was.
Guy BranumGUEST
I guess he just was
Catherine Ann JonesGUEST
As I think I said when you interviewed me last about the writing, I can't think of a better background to write plays and movies and television than to be a professional actor.
Catherine Ann JonesGUEST
Moliere and Shakespeare started as actors, after all.
Catherine Ann JonesGUEST
Not
Alex FerrariHOST
that I'm quite on that level.
Steven B. SmithGUEST
Why? I realized a couple of years ago when I began writing this book that statesmanship is actually a theme I've been thinking about working on in one way or another for a very long time, although I hadn't fully realized it.
Steven B. SmithGUEST
It was a little bit like the character from the Moliere play, who realizes when he's 40 that he's been speaking in prose his whole life.
Steven B. SmithGUEST
And I realized he'd been teaching Plato's Republic and Machiavelli's Prince.
Steven B. SmithGUEST
many other books in which the question of the statesman is really front and center.
Michelle DowdyGUEST
you know so i just felt lucky that we had such a good basis uh right for learning things.
Michelle DowdyGUEST
And that was like the first time I had like a real vocal coach, did real like, you know, big plays and Shakespeare and Moliere and things like that, you know, like do big stuff.
Michelle DowdyGUEST
And that was kind of the first place that we did it like seriously.
Michelle DowdyGUEST
And we all took it, you know, very serious.
Skyler CuthillGUEST
So, um, no.
Skyler CuthillGUEST
So maybe we'll do like some Moliere or whatnot, some Voltaire.
Skyler CuthillGUEST
That'd be
Kevin McKeeHOST
interesting.
Tamsen FadalHOST
Tony winner Bill Irwin is back on Broadway in a new adaptation of the imaginary invalid.
Bill IrwinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think I've been thinking about this play for right around 60 years, because I did this role in high school, and I thought, throughout my life, I'm going to have business with this play, because many scholars love other plays of Molière's.
Bill IrwinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Miser is the greatest play in history.
Bill IrwinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I like this play.
GavinHOST
Let's go with Robert Hoffler for the rap, which, yeah, sorry.
GavinHOST
He says this revival of The Imaginary Invalid, which opened Thursday at the Roundabout's Todd Hibbs Theater, has a bad case of anemia, despite Brandon J. Durden directing the Moliere classic as it were a screwball comedy.
GavinHOST
The extravagant costumes by Karen Perry would be considered excessive for even the silliest of Rossini's comic operas.
GavinHOST
All right, not much to work with there.
GavinHOST
The one mixed review is Joey Sims for Theaterly, who says, quote, As a New Yorker headline rightly reminded us just this week, Bill Irwin's is, quote, the OG clown.
GavinHOST
The legendary performer is also a perfect fit to portray self-pitying hypochondriac monster Argan in Moliere's farcical comedy The Imaginary Invalid, now receiving an enjoyable revival under the auspicious...
GavinHOST
The auspices? Auspicious?
NickHOST
I've never seen this word.
Anthony ChaseHOST
I did.
Anthony ChaseHOST
What'd you see? Well, I did see Daniel Croy Henderson, who was on our radio program a week or so ago, talking about making his Broadway debut with Bill Irwin in Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid.
Anthony ChaseHOST
And he was marvelous.
Anthony ChaseHOST
Just marvelous.
Sam MullinsGUEST
Sidebar, I couldn't understand why he thought that I was a versatile actor because the last three roles I played on the main stage at school are as follows.
Sam MullinsGUEST
I played an upper-class Texan lawyer in Moliere's Tartuffe, an elderly, blind, Polish-Jewish basket weaver in a play called Crackpot, and the semester before, I just played a lower-class cockney talking horse in Wind in the Willows.
Sam MullinsGUEST
But...
Sam MullinsGUEST
But this vast array of roles, however, is more to do with the fact that directors never really knew where to put me, and less to do with me being a young Daniel Day-Lewis.
George TolesGUEST
So that started things rolling.
George TolesGUEST
I acted in a couple of Chris Johnson shows, The Bacchae and Moliere's The Miser.
George TolesGUEST
Then I began directing on a pretty regular basis, I would say.
George TolesGUEST
The majority of plays I directed were American plays that I loved, but I also did, say, Miss Julie, the Stinberg play, Chekhov's,
39 MINS LATER
Andrew DavidsonHOST
So what will be coming next for you?
George TolesGUEST
I've been struggling with cancer for the last while, which meant it's all clear now, but it It meant that I couldn't do the play that I was planning to do this summer, which was William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba.
George TolesGUEST
I'm going to be doing it, it looks like, in December at the Circle Moliere, early December, pre-Christmas.
George TolesGUEST
It's not exactly a Christmas play, but maybe the title would strike some people, oh, a nice story about a doggie coming back.
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