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And we spent the next six weeks choreographing “Alceste,” and memorizing Bob’s style of movement.

That doesn’t mean assuming the role of Alceste in Molière’s “The Misanthrope,” the critic of society who calls out everyone’s faults while remaining oblivious to his own.

The plot is fueled by arch archetypes that infuriate the main character, Alceste, who prides himself on telling these poseurs the truth, no matter the cost.

As Alceste, Elliott Kashner fumes and stammers with disgust, often while dangling a couplet’s final word for comic effect.

What’s not as visible are the superior but soulful Alceste’s bruised feelings.