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ACTOR MICHAEL WEAVER IN ‘THE MISANTHROPE’
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Michael Weaver auditioned for this long respected and influential play from the 1600s because “it’s one of those things you don’t pass up if you’re serious about acting.” Director JW Rone gave Weaver the lead role of Alceste in the November 8-18 production, in the black box theater at ARTworks in Beaufort. “The Misanthrope” is Michael Weaver’s first production with ARTworks, but not his first lead in a classic comedy. Michael also has played Earnest in Michael “The Importance Weaver of Being Earnest,” Charles in “Blithe Spirit,” and Cyrano in “Cyrano de Bergerac.” Michael has performed in many musicals and in December he will appear in Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. Q: What do you like most about your role? A: This is the role that Moliere wrote for himself. It is a continuing pleasure to get inside the head of one of history’s most respected playwrights, and an honor. Q: What’s the most interesting aspect about this play? A: On first reading, Alceste seems to be angry and preachy, even loud. But the more you study him, the more
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“The Misanthrope” is from a translation by Beaufortonian Daniel H. Daniels from the 1600s French verse. Nov. 8-10 at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 11 at 3 p.m.; Nov. 1517 at 7:30 p.m; Sunday, Nov. 18 at 3 p.m. Tickets, call 843-379-2787 or visit www.artworksinbeaufort.org. dimensions you see. Beginning with his real affection for his best friend, Philinte. And extending then to how truly he is hurt in his relationship with Celimene. Every trip through the play I see more real emotion and vulnerability in Alceste, despite his blustery front. Q: Who do you admire in this play? What’s your favorite line? A: I admire the misanthrope’s best friend, Philinte. He’s not the most assertive person on stage — Alceste and Celimene use up a lot of oxygen — but Philinte often says the smartest, truest things that get said in “The Misanthrope.” For example, “Like you, I see a hundred problems every day that could be solved much better in a different way; but even though I see such things on every hand, I don’t fly into a rage — like you — about them. And I take men as they come, no matter how bizarre, and train my mind to look at people as they are.”
Q: What has been the biggest challenge in rehearsing? A: The sheer amount of dialog one must learn as Alceste. I played another famous talker — Cyrano de Bergerac — earlier this year. Alceste makes Cyrano look like a man of few words. Q: Tell us more about the language of the play. A: Thanks to our new translation, by Daniel Hoyt Daniels [a resident of Beaufort] the language itself is by far the most up-to-the-minute that I have seen in a classic play. Yet Daniels brought this translation back to the original rhythm. It is called Alexandrian couplets, and it involves six beats to every line of verse. When French is translated to English, it almost always goes to five beats per line. That’s the same as the“iambic pentameter” in which Shakespeare wrote, and English fits that well. The six-beat line in Daniels’ translation gives more room for something modern audiences don’t get to hear very much. Audiences in Moliere’s (and Shakespeare’s) days loved word-play. They enjoyed wit, an ingenious way of putting something. And they expected to hear a thought stated two or three different ways before the speaker moves on. That is not the fashion now, in the era of “LOL” and “BFF.” It is worth visiting the day when people loved the words they used — you can always come back!
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organ concert series continues Andrew Hayler returns to the Parish Church of St. Helena on Friday, Nov. 2 to perform the third performance in the fall series of Friday Organ Concerts at Noon held at the Beaufort church. The fall series featured four former organists/ music directors of St. Helena’s over the past 20 years. The church is concluding its celebration of its tricentennial year (1712-2012). Born and raised in Nottingham, Andrew England, Hayler Hayler was also the organ scholar at the Church of Our Savior, Rock Hill; associate minister of music at Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, Mo.; and organ scholar, Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary, WI. He graduated from Seminary in 2001 and served at Grace Church in Charleston. In 2007, he was commissioned as a Navy Chaplain and he currently serves as Deputy Command Chaplain, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla. These 45-minute concerts are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Pat Gould, the music director at the church, at patgould@islc.net or 843-522-1712 or visit www.sthelenas1712.org.