THE ANACHRONISMIACS Poetry is all the rage in the madcap comedy, The Metromaniacs, David Ives' 2015 English "translaptation" of La Métromanie (1738), an obscure French farce by Alexis Piron. While La Métromanie jocularly reflected the "poetry craze" of its era, Ives' remake offers a modern lens in which to lovingly jeer that same 18th-century phenomenon. […] The post Theater Review: THE METROMANIACS (Theatre 40, …
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