Comedy freely adapted from Moliére with the Freiburger Theater Compagnie
In the days of Molière, alias Jean Baptiste Poquelin, avarice was not yet cool but was officially considered a mortal sin. A lot has happened since then: Industrialization, unleashed markets and an insatiable greed that is destroying our planet at the expense of the poorest. There are also references to modern phenomena such as stock market and food speculation in the play "The Miser, freely adapted from Molière" by the Freiburg Theater Compagnie.
This time, too, a classic is brushed against the grain with rapid role changes, caricatured characters and quirky slapstick and the Parisian director's framework story is original. There are many clever directorial ideas.
As an accomplished comedian, Bernd Lafrenz plays the miser with nerd glasses and a calculator, a vain and crazy oddball who names the suitcases of money buried in the garden and sings his favorite babies to sleep at night. He is also paranoid. Everyone wants to ruin him.
Badische Zeitung, Freiburg
