You Gotta Love ‘The Misanthrope’

I had the pleasure, along with my sister, of being the guest of one of the performers to attend The Misanthrope last night at the Dallas Theater Center. Our own Glenn Arbery will have the full review in Friday’s paper. I certainly think it’s worth seeing, even if at times the rhythm of the lines (all in rhyming couplets) and the extreme cold of the theater’s air conditioning lulled me into a daze.

My sister, herself an actress (got her master’s at the prestigious American Conservatory Theater, on a full-ride scholarship), mentioned a slight criticism of the stage lighting during half-time, and I admit it bugged me the rest of the show. But even these minor concerns melted away whenever the play’s anachronistic theme song was heard.  Terrific fun.

Now, if only parking at DTC hadn’t been such an unpleasant experience.