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Article: Ruthlessness reigns in twisted `Le Monde'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2009
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`Have pity on a broken and desperate soul," an anguished
character named Mint pleads during "The Remarkable Rooming House of
Madame Le Monde."
But pity is in short supply - make that nonexistent - in this
provocative one-act play by Tennessee Williams. Billed as a world
premiere, it was performed Friday and Saturday by Beau Jest Moving
Theatre at the Charlestown Working Theater.
Written near the end of the playwright's life, "Madame Le Monde"
represents a macabre, Grand Guignol-style iteration of a familiar
Williams theme: namely, the terrible price the world often exacts
from the weak and vulnerable. (One suspects the surname "Le Monde"
reflects Williams's penchant for symbolic names.)
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