Dark Matter audiobook

Dark Matter audiobook

Jeremy Northam narrates the unabridged audiobook of Dark Matter, due out in October from Orion. Written by Michelle Paver, the author of the brilliantly successful children’s...

26 Treasures in 62 words

26 Treasures in 62 words

Admirers of Jeremy Northam’s portrayal of Sir Thomas More in The Tudors may be interested in following the 26 Treasures’ trail at the V&A (Victoria & Albert...

Free Audio Download

Free Audio Download

The Guardian and Observer newspapers, together with Audible, are giving away a free audiobook download all this week. Wednesday’s unabridged download was George Orwell’s...

Dean Spanley Extra

Dean Spanley Extra

Dean Spanley is one of our favourite Jeremy Northam films here at JeremyNortham.net. Nick Shaw loves the film, too, not least because it was the first film he worked on. Here he...

A Fatal Inversion (Review)

A Fatal Inversion (Review...

Jeremy Northam plays a self-centered, cocksure young man in this psychological thriller, a 1992 BBC production based on the book by Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine. Rufus...

Miami Medical cancelled

Miami Medical cancelled

Just as we were getting used to seeing Jeremy Northam on our TV screens once again every week, even if it was in scrubs, CBS announced today that it’s cancelled Miami Medical....

Model Doctors

Model Doctors

TVGuideMagazine has posted a great video up on YouTube of a photoshoot and interviews with Jeremy Northam and the other stars of CBS show Miami Medical. Although it was only just...

When Jeremy Smiles

When Jeremy Smiles

When I made my first ever Jeremy Northam tribute video I had no idea that there would be more of them or that they would be on a website one day. I remember that it was a December...

Miami Medical’s Mad Max

Miami Medical's Mad Max

Christopher Emerson appears in Miami Medical for the first time this coming Friday, April 9 on CBS (10/9c).  He took time out from his busy schedule to answer a few questions...

Miami Medical Rolls In!

Miami Medical Rolls In!

“I’m here to live.” So replies the mysterious Dr. Proctor when a young resident asks “Why are you here?” And living is the driving force in this new, fast-moving medical...



LA BETE

Jan 16 2010
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La Bête is a 1991 comedy by American playwright, David Hirson. Written in 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, Prince Conti, wishes them to bring aboard. Despite Elomire’s violent objections, the company is forced to perform one of Valere’s own plays, which results in dramatic changes to the future of Elomire, Valere, and the company itself.

Following 15 previews, the Broadway production, produced by Stuart Ostrow and Andrew Lloyd Webber and directed by Richard Jones, opened on February 10, 1991 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, where it ran for only 25 performances.

The subsequent West End production was a critical and commercial success and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy. The London cast included Alan Cumming, Jeremy Northam, Timothy Walker and Simon Treves. Jeremy played the part of dignified, stuffy Elomire.