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Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy (1992) David Hirson (born 1958) is an American dramatist, best known for his award-winning Broadway comedies, La Bête and Wrong Mountain.
La Bête is a 1991 comedy play by American playwright David Hirson. Written in rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter, the Molière -inspired story, set in 17th-century France, pits dignified, stuffy Elomire, the head of the royal court-sponsored theatre troupe, against the foppish, frivolous street entertainer Valere, whom the troupe's patron ...
David Hirson's La Bête opened on Broadway in February 1991 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, and had its UK premiere at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 1992. A new production, directed by Matthew Warchus and starring Mark Rylance, opened at the Comedy Theatre in the West End in June 2010, and subsequently transferred to Broadway.
His plays have been produced on Broadway and internationally, receiving nominations for multiple Tony and Drama Desk Awards, and winning numerous honors including the John Gassner Award of th e Outer Critics Circle, the New York Newsday/ George Oppenheimer Award, the Marton Prize of the Dramatists Guild, and London's Laurence Olivier Award.
David Hirson's La Bête - About ElevenOne Theatre - 111 Theatre. January 12th-16th, 7.30pm. Matinee, Saturday 16th, 2.30pm. OFS Studio, Oxford | Tickets £12 / £10 concessions. Group discounts available. To buy tickets, call. 0844 8440662. or online at www.OFSstudio.org.uk. Preview and reviews.
Jan 9, 2000 · DAVID HIRSON'S nervy, wildly distinctive first play, ''La Bete,'' opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theater on Feb. 10, 1991, and very shortly became one of the most famous flops in Broadway...
Dec 7, 2010 · It has been produced on Broadway twice, first in 1991 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in its famously controversial premiere (directed by Richard Jones) and again this year in a revival at the...
