Figaro's Follies: Beaumarchais Newly Improved Upon

By John Freed

The audiences for "Figaro's Follies" who know Mozart's opera will find that they are in very familiar territory here and might well agree with Napoleon who said of Beaumarchais' original "Le Mariage de Figaro" - "It is the revolution already in action."My primary goal in re-rendering this societal paradigm-shifting 1784 play is to preserve it by turning it into a much more watchable "well-made" one while retaining its main, late 18th century motifs, characters and very laughable, farcical plot elements in the David Ives' tradition.My other goal in this translation/adaptation is to follow the advice transported across the galaxy by aliens and given to Woody Allen in Stardust Memories - "You want to make the world a better place? Tell funnier jokes."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1094921041
• ISBN13: 9781094921044
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 97 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"