Details

American playwright David Hirson's rollicking 1991 play, La Bete, is a comic tour de force about Elomire, a high-minded classical dramatist who loves only the theatre, and Valere, a low-brow street clown who loves only himself. When the fickle princess decides she's grown weary of Elomire's royal theatre troupe, he and Valere are left fighting for survival as art squares off with ego in a literary showdown for the ages. La Bete website.

Cast/Performers

Mark Rylance (Valere), David Hyde Pierce (Elomire), Joanna Lumley (The Princess), Stephen Ouimette (Bejart), Lisa Joyce (Marquise-Therese Du Parc), Greta Lee (Dorine), Robert Lonsdale (Rene Du Parc), Michael Milligan (De Brie), Liza Sadovy (Catherine De Brie), Sally Wingert (Madeleine Bejart)

Creatives/Company

Author: David Hirson
Producer(s): Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott Landis
Director: Matthew Warchus
Design: Mark Thompson
Lighting: Hugh Vanstone
Music: Claire van Kampen
Sound: Simon Baker