NW Premiere
The Liar
May 26 - June 21, 2015
Alder Stage
By David Ives, adapted from the comedy by Pierre Corneille
Directed By Dámaso Rodríguez
Sound Design by Resident Artist Rodolfo Ortega
From the brilliant, comedic mind of David Ives (All in the Timing, Venus in Fur) comes a hilarious “translaptation” of this 17th Century French romp, replete with wild misassumptions, mistaken identities and tangled truths. Played out in outrageously clever verse, expect lightning-fast pace, anachronistic twists and a hip cast, with plenty of nods to Corneille’s neo-classical original.
Study Guide
A great resource for all but beware of SPOILERS!! Download it here.
Stage & Studio
Stage and Studio’s Dmae Roberts took her show on the road to Artists Rep this week! She talks The Liar with play director and artistic director Dámaso Rodríguez, followed by a wonderful chat with Profile Theatre’s artistic director Adriana Baer about their upcoming play “In the Next Room, or the vibrator play.” Click here to listen!
Press
“The Liar: Dámaso Rodríguez’s production at Artists Rep is colorful, enchanting, renewing …”
“…crackling comedy” of The Liar is a kick in the collective pants”
“…a witty play, in a stylishly good-natured production that’s playful and intimate and a great deal of fun”
” … Dámaso Rodriguez brings the real feast … San Nicolas’ and Murray’s warp-speed elocution and fraternal chemistry. Artists Rep’s The Liar lets us sit back and relish the witty wordplay with a smooth finish of fine acting.”
“The Liar is a seriously funny rollercoaster of circumstance that held laughs (not just cheap ones, either: SMART, sophisticated, European laughs! Also fart jokes) and attention for each poetic couplet, which flowed like bearable slam poetry”
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