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Yet the cast as a whole work strongly as a unit. . Disenchanted!" Cliton (Adam Green), the aw-shucks valet, is our meta-comedian, shambling knowingly into plot devices and blaming his offenses on “that tragic flaw, again!” Lines from Hamlet, bizarrely, get co-opted to make the rhyme scheme work. "The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, as refracted in a theatrical fun-house mirror. SIEGEL: And now tell me about how you got the assignment to do this and what you said when the Shakespeare Theatre said, you know, "The Liar" by Corneille, we'd like you to adapt that play for us. fbz_FitForm('F10834_sb'); The performance has built up to this conclusion, since it has been self-aware from the start, and the characters constantly remind us that we are watching a play. She’ll think you’re a resourceful sort of chap. . The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. . . BLOCK: (as Clarice) Aid me, I'll be you. My dear aunt! . Ives has written the entire adaptation in rhymes which is more irritating than entertaining and makes all the punchlines extra cheesy. . And I think that playwrights tend to like being kept alive. . . What seems to be typical French fashion, I suppose. BLOCK: (as Dorante) Quite fluently, in fact. He may have the skill to fool earnest Cliton, but his plots fall apart and he must constantly bolster his wild fabrications with more. Adapted by. . Original production information including cast list ? . He's constantly stepping very close to the edge of an incredible cliff with his lies and yet he always finds his way out of them. . He received a Helen Hayes Award nomination for co-directing the Andy Warhol musical POP! . New York, NY, Twelve Angry Men . . Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. clearInterval(F10834_sb_wait); David Ives (Broadway's Venus in Fur and Lives of the Saints) sets the scene for a hilarious misadventure of romance that's short on truth but long on laughter. . “THE LIAR and its mischievous adapter, David Ives, want you to savor every meticulously groomed conceit, every stylishly turned-out couplet, every assiduously manicured joke…Ives is an inveterate jester, a trait that serves him well on an evening that is all jest.” —Washington Post. Dorante. . Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2014. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. How do you do that? . Dorante is charming, handsome¼ and a pathological liar! . . Brown’s costuming is tailored to each character. F10834_sb_requiredFields.push('F10834_sb_email'); trans. . Tickets and more information can be found here. . 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The classic French farce (adapted by PACLA co-founders Mohan Kachgal & Daniel Walker) follows Dorante - a charming new arrival to the city, and his inability to tell the truth. The Liar (Ives) - Acting Edition ... "Paris, 1643: Dorante is a charming young man newly arrived in the capital, and he has but a single flaw: He cannot tell the truth. SIEGEL: That's Christian Conn as Dorante and Adam Green as his manservant Cliton. .To be announced! He received a Helen Hayes Award nomination for co-directing the Andy Warhol musical POP! Are these just props? In tears! . at The Studio 2ndStage and … .To be announced! . .Tashina Stillmaker. Is he a father? Dorante tries to sum up the lesson tidily in his ending monologue: “How liars are punishèd by their own lies!/Was not the moral of this exercise -/But rather how, amidst life’s contradictions,/Our lives can … We are busy workshopping the script - check back here or our social media pages for updates! He comes across a manservant, Cliton, who simply cannot tell a lie. . But when he falls in love he begins to weave an increasingly intricate web of lies that even he can't keep up with. . . Well, officially, it's by the 17th century French dramatist Pierre Corneille. From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. --- David Ives SELLING POINTS The book features: ? He quickly falls in love with an unknown woman, Clarice (Erika Strasburg), but fails to get her name and winds up getting the name of her close friend, Lucrece (Sarah Silk), instead. With an intelligent script (in iambic pentameter) and a committed, hard-working ensemble, this production makes for a delightful evening of theatre. Anyone who has seen a well-performed Shakespeare knows what hogwash this is, but if any more proof were needed, Kinetic Theatre Company’s production of The Liar, adapted by David Ives and directed by Andrew Paul, provides a stunning example of just how relevant and entertaining the classics remain. Ives has not only translated it, but has added modern concepts. PLAY SYNOPSIS Dorante is charming, handsome and a pathological liar! BLOCK: And Corneille is beyond litigation at this point. Distinctions between Digests Old and New. . Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2011. My God, you're sexy. The Liar is a full-length comedy by David Ives, adapted from Le Menteur by Pierre Corneille. I call this a translaptation. Yes. SIEGEL: How do you compare adapting somebody else's - albeit very old and not very well-known but perhaps terrific - play with writing something of your own? . Dorante is charming, handsome, and a pathological liar! Characters, for the most part, mold their thoughts into verse – the ingénue Clarice (Erin Partin) retrieves her hand from a suitor’s grasp with: “However sweet your manual sensation / this hand’s not meant, monsieur, for your palpation” – but it takes Ives’s keen handle on the silly to round out the show. Dorante, wrongly believing that the girl that he likes is Lucrece, concocts an outrageous lie that he is already married in order to avoid having to marry Clarice. At night’s end, what passes for plot and character has dissolved, leaving only those bouncy rhyming couplets smacking sweet on your lips. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In relying so heavily on verse within the patter of protracted parlor scenes, the show risked becoming a lumpen, self-congratulatory two hours of A-B-A-B rhyme scheme. Stage Manager. Géronte, Dorante's father, announces to his son that he has found a girl for him to marry (Clarice). The Liar, originally penned by the French dramatist Pierre Corneille, has been conscripted by Ives, a contemporary American playwright with a taste for the absurd. BLOCK: (as Lucrece) I am a spring, thou art my divining rod. } catch(e){} . . Most of the credit goes to the newly adapted script by David Ives, commissioned through Shakespeare Theatre’s own ReDiscovery Series. Kinetic Theatre’s production is a timely reminder of how twisted our lives can become with misinformation, but also how important theatre is for speaking the truth, even if through the means of a lie. The liar hires the always truthful Cliton (exuberant Joseph Patrick O’Malley) as his servant who quickly becomes his confidant and accomplice in finding a woman. Some learned languishing, that’s what they want: The Prince of Precedents -- what a gallant! . 1989. p. 20. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. BLOCK: Then I think he would shake my hand and thank me profusely for having procured him a country house. Dorante tries to sum up the lesson tidily in his ending monologue: “How liars are punishèd by their own lies!/Was not the moral of this exercise -/But rather how, amidst life’s contradictions,/Our lives can far out-fick the finest fictions.” But what Dorante goes on to say rings even more true: that although the entirety of the play has been a “lie,” this makes it no less full of truth, since that is the essence of theatre, finding truth in a fiction. Dorante is a young law student, and practiced liar, who has arrived READ MORE - PRO MEMBERS ONLY Join the StageAgent community to learn more about this monologue from The Liar and unlock other amazing theatre resources! Dorante, a first-rate fabulist, has a gift for stretching the truth. . . But I thought what fun, since this is a play about truth and lies, to make the maids into twins. Moments after hiring Cliton (who wears a Rent Me sign around his neck) Dorante turns his handsome mug to the golden-haired Clarice, her sullen companion Lucrece (Miriam Silverman), and their twin maids Isabelle and Sabine (both played by a scene-stealing Colleen Delany). Commissioned and first performed by the Shakespeare Theatre Company at the Lansburgh Theatre in Washington D.C., opening April 12, 2010 under the direction of Michael Kahn.THE SERIES Productions in Print Series was developed with the knowledge that every theatre production demands a quality printed product to complement the run at the theatre and give life to the production long after the curtain has come down.
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