The School for Lies by David Ives

February 23-25 and March 2-4 at 7:30 pm

February 26 and March 5 at 2 pm

Friday, March 3 is Salem Night-Free admission for all Salem residents with ID

Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts

356 Lafayette Street, Salem, MA 01970

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. This production is not set in the salons of Paris, but rather in France Classical High School, circa 1980s with all the characters we remember from our yearbook – The Cheerleader, The “It” Girl, The Jock, The Thespian, The Sidekick and more.

This wild farce of furious tempo and stunning verbal display, all in very contemporary couplets, is two plays in one: an authentic representation of Molière’s strikingly modern 17th-century worldview and an hilarious satire of the world we live in right now. Another incomparable romp from the brilliant author of All in the Timing.

Directed by Peter Sampieri