The Madwoman of Chaillot runs at the Phoenix Theatre from Nov. 9–25, with evening shows at 8 p.m. from Monday through Thursday and 2 p.m. matinees on Saturdays. Based on a play by Jean Giraudoux, and man is it obvious this was a play, the titular ‘Madwoman of Chaillot’ is Katherine Hepburn’, *really she is*. This has to do with the main villains … Read Full Review… And in the central role of The Countess, aka The Madwoman of Chaillot, Jeff Award-winning actress Elaine Carlson lights up the stage." While the intention and the cast is very good, the movie is a dull one. In The Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald rather famously quipped, “There are no second acts in American lives.” But I’m glad this isn’t true about drama, because I started drifting off during the first act of A Noise Within’s production of Jean Giradoux’s 1943 The Madwoman of Chaillot. B. Iden Payne Theatre, Through November 19 Running Time: 2 hrs, 35 min . The Madwoman of Chaillot: A Pleasant, Ghostly Dance. He's taken Jean Giraudoux's late 1940s play, jacked it … Adapted from the play La Folle de Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux, Madwoman of Chaillot focuses on a plot to drill for oil in Paris. I wanted to like this movie but it was a slog to get through. … The Madwoman of Chaillot . I had one of those mornings yesterday. Ugh. No doubt a hip, groovy, contemporary film version of "The Madwoman of Chaillot" was possible, but Bryan Forbes has not directed it. The Madwoman of Chaillot continues to Oct. 1. Tickets are regularly $26, with $20 and $15 tickets for seniors and students respectively. Review by Karen Topham; photos by. Review: CBT’s Whimsical and Poetic ‘The Madwoman of Chaillot’ Reveals the Truth About Evil ~ ArtsKnoxville (pdf) Review: Carol Mayo Jenkins triumphs in ‘The Madwoman of Chaillot’ ~ KnoxTNToday (pdf) Not recommended. Jean Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot is a satirical play from 1945 that seems to maintain its social relevance even today. In both cases, it is the riffraff of society, those who live outside of its mainstream, who represent the Truth. Kate is full Kate in the style of 1919 wandering modern Paris and putting captains of industry on trial. Jean Giraudoux who wrote The Madwoman Of Chaillot became a prominent French writer in the years between the two World Wars and died in 1944 a year before this play made its debut on the French … On Wednesday night I went to see The Madwoman of Chaillot at the MTC. My objection to this is that I suffered all the punishment with none of the fun. But you don't have to go that far to find the play misanthropy masquerading as whimsy. Reviewed by Deborah Klugman A Noise Within Through November 11 Jean Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot (translated by Maurice Valency) has always been one of my favorite plays. I entered the theatre with sprightly step, my eyes shining with hope; and three hours later I emerged a broken woman, with the kind of headache that follows a night of concentrated debauchery. The Madwoman of Chaillot (French: La Folle de Chaillot) is a play, a poetic satire, by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, written in 1943 and first performed in 1945, after his death.The play is in two acts. That they may be insane is never really the issue. Jean Giraudoux's "The Madwoman of Chaillot" doesn't see much light these days , except in occasional college repertory productions.