MOLIÈRE FOR DUMMIES Attend David Ives' The School for Lies"a manic contemporary travesty"if you want to fully appreciate Molière's 1666 masterpiece The Misanthrope, as serious a comedy as the 17th century farceur ever attempted. Brashly brilliant, grotesquely scatological, industriously low-brow, and perversely wrong-headed, this Midwest premiere of The School for Lies at Chicago Shakespeare Theater's [...]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:18PM on December 13, 2012