The School for Lies
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 1, 2011
Closed May 29, 2011
Opened May 1, 2011
Closed May 29, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Don't miss the latest Classic Stage Company production by the team that brought you last season's acclaimed hit VENUS IN FUR! Mamie Gummer (UNCLE VANYA, "Off the Map") and Hamish Linklater (MERCHANT OF VENICE, "The New Adventures of Old Christine") lead a stellar cast in THE SCHOOL FOR LIES, David Ives' and Walter Bobbie's sparkling take (in hilarious verse!) on Molière's immortal comic masterpiece, THE MISANTHROPE.
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School for Lies
Wow!! This is one of the best pieces of theater I have seen for a long time. Scintillating script in very, very amusing verse which turns Moliere into great farce. A stellar cast whose timing has to be seen to be believed. This kind of farce, especially in verse, is very difficult to pull off but this troupe does so with great skill. They even managed to overcome a lighting failure during the performance I saw. For a really entertaining couple of hours, DONT miss this one, whatever you do.
Reviewed by MACNBOB
on Monday, May 2nd, 2011
Top notch
Good enough that it inspired me to make my first rating. Well acted and a ton of fun.
Reviewed by Discontinuous
on Saturday, Apr 23rd, 2011
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David Ives offers up a grand -- and somewhat farcical -- riff on Moliere's The Mistanthrope in The School for Lies, now playing at Classic Stage Company in an utterly delightful production under the direction ofWalter Bobbie.
Like the classic comedy on which it is based, Ives' play centers on a man who has developed a distaste and hatred for the falseness often required by polite society. Ives has renamed the character Frank (Hamish Linklater), which seems only appropriate given the bluntness with which he assails those around him.
As in Moliere, Frank finds himself drawn to the entirely wrong sort of woman, the flirtatious and gossipy Celimene (Mamie Gummer). In Ives' version, this a[...]