| Brief Description: | Leading figures on the French stage since World War II, director/actor
Jean-Louis Barrault and his wife, actress Madeleine Renaud, present
the jealousy scene from Moliere's Le Misanthrope and recitations from
other works of French drama and poetry, including Jacques Prevert's
Bird, Paul Valois' Liberte and a charming fable about animal
intelligence. Barrault performs his famous circus horse-riding
pantomime and discusses the importance of state subsidies to the
theater for the good of the country's intellectual life. Some French |
