Casting for the production of Moliere's "Le Misanthrope" by the Harvard Dramatic Club will begin this afternoon at 4 o'clock at Big Tree, Charles Mansfield '47, president, announced last night.

The performance, which will be staged sometime late in December at Sanders Theatre, will mark the first time since the start of the war that the H.D.C. is producing a play without the Radcliffe Idler. During the war they collaborated successfully on several plays, including "Owen Wingrave," "Much Ado About Nothing," and "Playboy of the Western World."