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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><span> </span>“Schenectady Civic Players is closing out its
90th season with “The School for Lies,” a humdinger of a play. It’s Moliere as
channeled by playwright David Ives, and the production brilliantly bangs out
the wit and wisdom inherent in both plays.”<span></span></span></i></b></p>
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LAMAR for The Daily<i> </i>Gazette<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">“Director Chris
Foster has brought out the modern through Ives language and the realities of
the people and given it all back to the style of the period of the original
play. The combination works wonderfully.”<span> </span></span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">J. PETER BERGMAN (Berkshire Bright Focus)</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span></span></span><span>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><font size="6">FINAL
WEEK FOR “THE SCHOOL FOR LIES"</font><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><span> </span><font size="4">Wednesday thru Sunday, May 9
thru 13</font></span></b><font size="4"><span><span></span></span></font></p><font size="4">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><font size="4"><span><span> </span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span><img src="cid:ii_jgy2g3o60_163413848def76b3" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="718" height="478"><br></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The fifth play of Schenectady Civic
Players’ 90<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Season, <b><i>The School for Lies </i></b>by
David Ives and directed by Chris Foster, continues through Sunday, May 13 at
its 12 South Church Street Playhouse in Schenectady’s historic Stockade
district.</span><span style="font-size:10pt"><span></span></span></p>
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Adapted from Molière’s <i>The Misanthrope, </i>David Ives’s <i>The School for
Lies</i> tells the comic tale of Frank, who shares with Molière’s Alceste a
venomous hatred of the hypocrisy that surrounds him. Borrowing from
Shakespeare, reality TV, and everything in between, <i>The School for Lies</i>
is an inspired entertainment as well as a pointed study in self-delusion, all
rendered in sparkling couplets.</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> <span></span></span></p>
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It’s 1666 and the brightest, wittiest salon in Paris is that of Celimene,
a beautiful young widow so known for her satiric tongue she been sued for it.
Surrounded by shallow suitors, whom she lives off of without surrendering to,
Celimene has managed to evade love since her beloved husband died- until today,
when Frank appears. A traveler from England known for his own coruscating wit
and acidic misanthropy, he turns her world upside-down, taking on her suitors,
matching her barb for barb, and teaching her how to live again. A wild farce of
furious tempo and stunning verbal display. <span></span></span></p>
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<span style="color:blue">The Civic Players cast features Jason Biszick (as
Frank), Jennifer Lefsyk (as Celimene), Nick Bosanko (as Philinte), Angelique
Powell (as Eliante), Rich Angehr (as Oronte), David Rook (as Clitander), Aileem
Penn (as Acaste), Nicolle Galligan (as Arsinoe), and Jean Carney (as
Basque/Dubois). </span><span></span></span></p>
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The School for Lies </span></i></b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">continues</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Wednesday through Sunday (May 9 through 13).
Friday and Saturday curtains are at 8 pm. Wednesday and Thursday curtains are
at 7:30 pm., and Sundays are matinees only at 2:30 pm. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%"><span></span></span></p>
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call (518) 382-2081 </span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">.
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