This is a FREE stage reading of a brand spanking new comedy. Grab a drink and enjoy hearing some fresh new theater read by some seriously funny people.
THE HATER by Matt Lyle
THE HATER is a modern (postmodern? meta-modern? doomscroll-core?) adaptation (total bastardization) of Molière’s THE MISANTHROPE reimagined on the battleground of a present-day liberal arts college. Trigger warnings, ideological skirmishes, and contemporary absurdities fly as Al, a history professor with a persecution complex and a superiority streak, sets his sights on the right, the left, and every stupidity in between — everyone, that is, except himself, natch. Everybody else is catching strays.
It’s a savage, cathartic, deeply unserious take on moral hypocrisy, intellectual arrogance, and the never-ending group project that is modern discourse. Molière would sue — or retweet it. Hard to say. Who cares?
WARNING: Part high art and part low-ass comedy, THE HATER is full of old words, new words, banned words, and completely made up words.
CAST:
Max Hartman as Al
Chad Cline as Phil
Jeremy Whiteker as Slade Billew
Katie Dallas as Cece
Natalia Borjas as Elly
Jeff Swearingen as Ace
Austin Beck as Clitandre
Emily Gray as Arsinoe
Kim Lyle reading Stage Directions
90 minute running time - No Intermission
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