Learned Ladies, The
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 25, 2000
Closed May 28, 2000
Opened Mar 25, 2000
Closed May 28, 2000
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This Molliere classic tells of three women unwittingly trying to set up their friend with what they think is the perfect gentleman. When it turns out he's a money-hungry charlatan, the madcap comedy ensues.
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A sure sign of Spring in Chicago is the annual two-play rotating rep which always closes out the season at Court Theatre. This year, artistic director Charles Newell has selected Moliere's erudite verse comedy, The Learned Ladies, in the funny, acidic, and thoroughly felicitous Richard Wilbur translation; and the American premiere of Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards, an 18th Century Japanese romance adapted by Peter Oswald for the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain. Newell has also staged both ambitious productions, and has succeeded admirably in creating a winning double-header which engages eyes, ears, intellect, and feelings in harmonious balance.
Despite the vastly differe[...]