[Capdist-announce] SCHOOL FOR LIES a Hit! Final Week. Get Your Tickets Now

[John William Hickman]

*Rave Reviews!  Get your tickets now!*

* “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.”*

      *PAUL LAMAR for The Daily Gazette*



*“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.”
            **J. PETER BERGMAN (Berkshire Bright Focus)*
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*FINAL WEEK FOR “THE SCHOOL FOR LIES"*

*                         Wednesday thru Sunday, May 9 thru 13*






The fifth play of Schenectady Civic Players’ 90th Anniversary Season, *The
School for Lies *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.

           Adapted from Molière’s *The Misanthrope, *David Ives’s *The
School for Lies* 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, *The School for
Lies* is an inspired entertainment as well as a pointed study in
self-delusion, all rendered in sparkling couplets.

           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.

​          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).

*           The School for Lies *continues 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.

*Tickets are $20.  Order on-line at **www.civicplayers.org*
<http://www.civicplayers.org> *  Or call (518) 382-2081 *.


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