The School for Lies was the very first play I have ever seen and my experience was a good one. The play was performed at West Coast Players and to my surprise when I walked into the door it was a smaller space than I had anticipated, nonetheless, the stage was beautifully set at a hadsfhs angle. The School for Lies was directed by David Ives, along with a wonderful cast of nine people. When planning to go watch the play I decided to leave researching until after the performance. I wanted to experience it completely without knowing anything to see what I took from it. Something interesting I later found out was that the School for Lies is an adaptation/ continuation of Molière’s Le Misanthrope.
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Little does she know her husband comes back as Frank, who is a very blunt and stern man. He is known as the guy who will speak every word on his mind without caring how others feel. But while Celemine is supposed to be grieving she has created a long record for herself throughout her mourning. So much so, that she has 3 men trying to propose to her at once, not including Frank who she believes she is madly in love with because she thinks he is royal. Celemine’s cousin, Eliante also comes into the play and finds herself in love with Frank, while Philinte, who dresses as a drag queen, claimed Eliante as his true love. The play continues spiraling into itself with even more confusion and bizarre scenes until it is revealed to Celemine that her husband she lost at sea was actually there with her in disguise. The plot itself wasn’t just what kept the play witty, but also the language that is used makes the play whimsy, adding on to the entire …show more content…
After reading through the script I realized that that's exactly what it was. Every line kept you guessing what rhyme you were going to hear next. After doing more research I found out that this play was written in rhyming couplets, which allows the play to have the flow it had. The jokes between characters were just rolling out as the play went along. Every time I thought that misunderstandings were fixed everything would just become more twisted and far far from the truth. Seems to me this play is solely based on misunderstandings of intentions and being tricked into thinking something