“Look at all these people. They’re all looking at me. And laughing. So you’re all in on it…”
So says the Miser, in the play “L’Avare,” as he looks out at the audience, accusing them of collusion in the theft of his money. The French playwright Molière, writing in 1668, anticipates experimental theater by 300 years. His title character breaks out of the play, not only fingering the audience in the plot against him,…