"MISANTHROPE" AT LOEB

George Hamlin will stage Moliere's famous court comedy of manners. "The Misanthrope" in Richard Wilbur's verse translation, as the final production of the Harvard Summer School Players' season, opening Wednesday night, August 15, for ten peformances at the Loeb Drama Center.

"The Misanthrope," with a lavish set in baroque style by scene-designer Horace Armistead and seventeenth-century costumes by Lewis Smith, features Petee Haskell as the disillusioned Alceste. Lucy Stone plays the beautiful and heartless Celimene with Joanne Hamlin as Arsinoe and Lynn Millgrim as Eliante. Paul Barstow performs as the misanthrope's friend, Philinte, and Samuel Abbot as the sonnet-writing Oronte. David Cole and Harry Smith are cast as the court fops, Clitandre and Acaste.