La Bete Reviews

Connie from NYC

LOVED IT!

This show was a Pleasant surprise. Absoultely out loud funny! Great performances by all but I must say Mark Rylance was a scene stealer ....I would see it again! Loved it!

SOLEDAD from Germany

MARK RYLANCE!!!

La Bête is an absolute rarity: an american comedy a la Moliere, playing in 1654 in France, and in verse. The play is a true festival of geniousity and talent and is profounder as it seems. Mixing extrem vulgarity with extrem rafinesse. Rylance brights in all Valere´s registers: an excessive character, egotistical, vulgar, pompous, showy and insensitiv beast: La bete It was worth to be one week in NYC only to see him!

Eric from Melbourne Australia

SIMPLY BRILLIANT

Yes, you have to like theatre to like this show. No, if you are there to see the TV stars do something familiar, or have an all-singing all-dancing special effects spectacular, you won't be happy. So that's fine, go see Cats again. Really: to those reviewers who didn't like this, I say: you didn't get it. Honestly, complaining about a lack of set changes...? Not all Broadway is Wicked you know. Rylance is one of the finest actors of his generation and here is in virtuoso form, and the others do a fine job of providing things for him to bounce off, the verse dialogue is ingenious and brilliantly delivered, and if I'd been in New York three more nights I would have seen it three more times. So: if you love theatre, rather than Broadway, you will love this play. If you want cheese and helicopters, there's always Miss Saigon.

Toots from New Jersey

FINALLY! I GOT THE MESSAGE!

T totally agree with M. Piazza. The ending hit me right in the chest!Anyone who's engaged in mediocrity should stay home.

Carol gunter from UK

CAROLG

Saw it in London and was absolutely entranced by the acting and the play itself. I hope that New York loves it as much as we did.

Linda from Minneapolis, MN

IT'S FUNNIER THAN YOU EVER IMAGINED IT COULD BE!

Please see this show, if for no other reason than to witness the astonishing talents of Mark Rylance one more time! The monologue is long - yes! Stick with it; you'll enjoy it. What a privilege to have seen this show - we traveled from Minneapolis specifically to see it and couldn't be more satisfied!

Montdorr from Chicago, IL

TOUR DE FORCE!

Absolutely brilliant on all levels. I haven't laughed so hard in I don't know when. Rylance, Pierce, Ouimette, et al are fantastic. Direction, sets, lights, sound all in accord and fueled the performances. A real treat not to me missed!

M. Piazza from Brooklyn, NY

WONDERFUL...

Wow. Um...I...couldn't disagree more with the reviews thus far on this page. Stellar performances, smart production and direction...so much better than the original production. The play itself is fantastic; the best play / performances / production I've seen on Broadway in a long time. If your coming to see celebs, than yes you are wasting your time, money, hotel room. However, if you're coming to see famous people on broadway, perhaps you should stick around to the end of the play and absorb its message into your thick skulls, and then (maybe) we'd have less garbage calling itself theater on broadway.

April black from NYC

EXCELLENT, THOUGHTFUL, SMART

I just got home from seing this play. It was enjoyable and so entertaining. All of the performances were excellent, especially that of Mark Rylance, so natural and flowing and the way the play is written to rhyme is great & surprisingly easy to follow. Great message too.

Ken from Redlands, CA USA

LAUGHED TILL I CRIED!

I went to the very first preview of this show and sat in the 11th row. It was delightful from beginning to end. Mark Rylance was off the charts hilarious. I was in NY for a week, and this was the 5th show I saw, and by far one of the best. To those who didn't like the show, you evidently didn't get it. I have never seen anyone funnier than Mark Rylance, but unfortunately for everyone else onstage, he stole the show. I highly recommend it!

Anonymous from Philadelphia PA

THE BEST KIND OF THEATER

Wonderful social and political satire with first class actors who seemed to enjoy the performance as much as the enthusiastic audience did. It was a treat to see such talent in a play of current history played out in a century now past. I'll watch for future plays by Mr. Ryland.

Steven from Princeton, NJ

BORING & DRAWN OUT. DON'T SEE THIS!.

I was at the 2pm sat. show this past weekend & WOW what a waste of my travel time. Between not hearing hearing Mr. Pierce voice clearly (I was 5 rows from the stage) & listening to that boring dialog, dealing with no intermissions & no set changes to liven it up & then hearing the cackling & giggling planted flaming theater guys to give the impression that the play is actually funny was too much... This is 1 long, boring scene... I don't know who funded this but it was a huge waste of your money..

Anonymous from New York

EXCRUCIATING

An awful theatrical waste. The monologues are simply unbearable. No subtlety, no wit. We endured the whole thing hoping for improvement, sadly it only goes from bad to worse.

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