Adapted from Molière’s The Misanthrope, David Ives’s The School for Lies tells the comic tale of Frank, who shares with Molière’s original character Alceste, a hatred of hypocrisy that surrounds him and who is a brutal critic of modern society. This does not, however, stop Frank from falling in love with the equally acerbic Célimène. Soon he finds himself tangled up in the very world he initially mocked for its phoniness. This production is not set in the salons of Paris, but in France Classical High School, circa 1980s with Molière’s characters represented by all the people we remember from our yearbook – The Cheerleader, The “It” Girl, The Jock, The Thespian, The Sidekick and more.
This wild farce of furious tempo and stunning verbal display, all in very contemporary couplets, is two plays in one: an authentic representation of Molière’s strikingly modern 17th-century worldview and a hilarious satire of the world we live in right now. The School for Lies is another incomparable romp from the brilliant author of All in the Timing.
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