About This Show

Staged by Tony Award®-winning director John Rando, this cheeky romp is another hilarious retooling of a classic from acclaimed playwright David Ives, creator of CST’s wildly popular The School for Lies and A Flea in Her Ear. Young Eraste has it all—good looks, a beautiful fiancée and the prospect of a sizable inheritance from an elderly uncle. There’s just one snag: the uncle won’t die and he has bequeathed his entire fortune to someone else. Whatever will the young man do? Hilarious rhyming couplets and contemporary slang abound as seventeenth-century bawdiness is catapulted into the twenty-first.

Show Details

Dates: Opening Night: November 29, 2015 Final Performance: January 17, 2016

Theatermania Review

| | December 31, 2015
Chicago Shakespeare Theater and David Ives unearth a little-known French farce.

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