Plastic Paddy

Moliere's misery love company -

especially Keira's

Damian Lewis as Alceste - Moliere's Misanthrope - looks on disdainfully as two photographs illustrate what he regards as the shallowness of society.
The actor stars in an updated version of The Misanthrope by Martin Crimp, in which he plays a contemporary playwright distracted by a flirty American starlet played by Keira Knightley, who will be making her debut in an ensemble led by Damian that also includes Tara Fitzgerald (seen in both photographs with Keira) and Dominic Rowan.
'This Misanthrope is angered by everything he sees around him and yet, at the same time, you might say he's one of the great romantics in literature,' Damian told me.

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