RSF: The School for Lies

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Sunday June 4

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7:30 PM  –  10:00 PM

2023 Richmond Shakespeare Festival
 
Bring your lawn chair or blanket and join us on Agecroft Hall's magnificent back lawn and enjoy Richmond Shakespeare performing:
 
The School for Lies
June 1st - June 25th
Gates Open at 6:00pm
Show Begins at 7:30pm

A blissfully entertaining romp

It’s 1666 and the brightest, wittiest salon is that of Celimene, a beautiful young widow so known for her satiric tongue, she’s being 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, Frank turns Celimene’s world upside-down, taking on her suitors, matching her barb for barb, and teaching her how to live again. (Never mind that their love affair has been engineered by a couple of well-placed lies.) This wild farce of furious tempo and stunning verbal display, all in very contemporary couplets, runs variations on Molière’s The Misanthrope, which inspired it.

No refunds or exchanges. Patrons are eligible for a ticket voucher if a show is cancelled prior to intermission. This is a two-act performance with intermission.
 
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