'Molière's the Miser'

Vermont Repertory Theatre brings 17th-century Paris to the Green Mountain State with its fresh, fast-paced production of Molière’s the Miser at Isham Barn Theatre in Williston. The searing satire brims with larger-than-life characters, bad fashion, razor-sharp wit and madcap mayhem. The show remains faithful to the iconic French playwright’s comedic cast of lowbrow servants and upper-crust courtiers — including the patriarchal, stingy Harpagon and his entitled, brattish children — but removes the barrier of often difficult-to-understand, centuries-old language that can trip up modern theatergoers. Come, laugh (or cry) at how little society has changed since 1668!