Playwright David Ives's follow-up collection to the award-winning collection All in the Timing pushes his gift for wacky one-act comedy to new heights: two mayflies on a date realize they have only twenty-four hours to live; a washing-machine repairman falls in love with a perfect washer (should he tell his girlfriend?); an out-of-work shmo decides to spend his day being painter Edgar Degas; two Babylonian blue-collar workers have to build the Tower of Babel -- or else. Zany, thought-provoking, and always original, this anthology brings together all the one-acts from the Off-Broadway hit Mere...
Playwright David Ives's follow-up collection to the award-winning collection All in the Timing pushes his gift for wacky one-act comedy to new heights...
Adapted from Moliere s "The Misanthrope, "David Ives s "The School for Lies" tells the comic tale of Frank, who shares with Moliere s Alceste a venomous hatred of the hypocrisy that surrounds him. Like his predecessor, Frank gets into trouble for insulting the work of a dreadful poet and falls in love with Celimene, a witty widow. In Ives s madcap version, however, Celimene returns Frank s affection because she wrongly believes him to be King Louis XIV s bastard brother. Borrowing from Shakespeare, reality TV, and everything in between, "The School for Lies" is an inspired entertainment as...
Adapted from Moliere s "The Misanthrope, "David Ives s "The School for Lies" tells the comic tale of Frank, who shares with Moliere s Alceste a venomo...
