For the first 30 minutes of David Hirson’s La Bete, Valere (Mark Rylance) delivers an hysterical monologue in rhymed couplets. Although not alone, Rylance, playing a braggart, boorish actor-playwright prattles on and on, much to the dismay of the other two men in the room. For Valere, they are merely his audience. Valere has been […]