2003

Moliere’s Scapin
adapted by Scott Witt

State Theatre Company
with Queensland Theatre Company
Dunstan Playhouse, November 2003.

Murray Bramwell

It is said that Moliere wrote The Rascalities of Scapin to beat the competition. The Italian Commedia dell’Arte troupes were all the rage in Paris in the 1670s and the famous French playwright was looking to win back support for his own theatre. He had borrowed heavily from Commedia in many of his plays, dispensing with masks but keeping much …