| WHEN: November 30-December 8; Friday, November 30 at 8:00 pm; Saturday, December 1 at 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM; Sunday, December 2 at 2:00 PM; Wednesday, December 5 at 8:00 PM; Thursday, December 6 at 5:00 PM(followed by Q & A); Friday, December 7 at 8:00 PM; Saturday, December 8 at 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
WHERE: Wilkins Theatre at Kean University, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union
TICKETS: $15 standard; $12 seniors; $10 students
www.keanstage.com or 908.737-7460 It’s Paris in the eighteenth century. Valere loves Angelique, but she won’t marry him until he gives up his other mistress: The Gambling Hall. Freyda Thomas’ THE GAMESTER is based on LE JOUER, a little-known 1696 play written by Jean-Francois Regnard, a little-known French writer. Thomas has cleverly devised a world-class French comedy, albeit with darker undertones reminiscent of Vegas and American society at the millennium. Well, the turn of any century is always marked by optimism, and what happens to the dice-crossed lovers, the portrait, the lusty widow, the old man and the stuttering fop is to be discovered within the finely woven text, written in crisp, accessible verse, with disguises, tricks and romance adding to the high comedy of this delightful “new” classic work. |
