A Misanthrope

Thursday, 17 July 2025 - Saturday, 2 August 2025

Event times:

19:30 - 21:00

Event price:

€26.00

About this event

Sugarglass & Smock Alley Theatre in association with Once Off Productions present the Irish Premiere of American Playwright Matt Minnicino’s Helen Hayes Award nominated adaptation, A Misanthrope.

In this swirling and sexy comedy of bad manners, Molière’s France becomes Dublin’s FRANS, a Silicon Docks megacorp brimming with pissants, posers, and plutocrats all grubbing for power and pleasure. As terminally over-it Alceste navigates a tempest of HR complaints and office warfare, his vexed and oversexed lover Celimene trods her own social minefield as she prepares to launch a venture that could liberate her from FRANS and all her hangers-on for good.

Escape from the woes of the modern world into a battleground of egos ruled by the absurd whims of tech titans– oh, wait. A play precocious, prescient, perverse / and yes, you guessed it, all in rhyming verse.

17 Jul - 2 Aug at 7.30pm | 26 Jul & 2 Aug at 2.30pm

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