{"id":7722,"date":"2008-04-09T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=7722"},"modified":"2012-12-18T15:52:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T22:52:01","slug":"french-comedy-comes-to-campus-in-the-miser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/french-comedy-comes-to-campus-in-the-miser\/","title":{"rendered":"French comedy comes to campus in &#8216;The Miser&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moli\u00e8re&#8217;s satire on materialism,\u00a0<em>The Miser<\/em>, will hit the stage at NAU&#8217;s Clifford E. White Theater for one week, beginning April 18.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by\u00a0<strong>Kathleen McGeever<\/strong>, chair of the theater department,\u00a0<em>The Miser\u00a0<\/em>is a story of cunning, guile and double-dealing. The outrageous satire plays out as a father, who rules his roost with an iron fist and plans to wed his children off to wealthy suitors, realizes their intended spouses are penniless.<\/p>\n<p>NAU students performing in the show include\u00a0<strong>Cy Brown\u00a0<\/strong>as Harpagon,\u00a0<strong>Chie Morita\u00a0<\/strong>as Elise,\u00a0<strong>Tony Latham\u00a0<\/strong>as Cleante and\u00a0<strong>Lauren Klein\u00a0<\/strong>as Frosine.<\/p>\n<p>The performance will adhere to principles of\u00a0<em>commedia dell&#8217;arte<\/em>, or Italian comedy\u2014an art form that uses fixed social types, such as foolish old men or devious servants. Physical comedy is used to heighten the humor.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Miser\u00a0<\/em>will run April 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25 and 26 at the Clifford White Theater on the NAU campus. All performances will begin at 8 p.m. with a 2 p.m. matinee on April 20.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-curtain talks on topics such as Moli\u00e8re, his theater and the mask-making tradition, will be given by NAU faculty 30 minutes before each show on April 18, 19, 20 and 23 in the theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $11 for general admission, $10 for faculty, staff and senior citizens, and $8 for students and children. Call the NAU Central Ticket Office at (928) 523-5661, or go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.nau.edu\/cto\" target=\"_blank\">www4.nau.edu\/cto<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/french-comedy-comes-to-campus-in-the-miser\/\">Moli\u00e8re&#8217;s satire on materialism,\u00a0The Miser, will hit the stage at NAU&#8217;s Clifford E. White Theater for one week, beginning April 18. Directed by\u00a0Kathleen McGeever, chair of the theater department,\u00a0The Miser\u00a0is a story of cunning, guile and double-dealing. The outrageous satire plays out as a father, who rules his roost with an iron fist and plans&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":7723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}