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This is a sparkling new translation of The School for Wives, Molière’s famous comedy of sexual manners, by popular Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead.
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Liz Lochhead is a poet, playwright, performer and broadcaster. She was born in Motherwell in 1947, studied at Glasgow School of Art and now lives in Glasgow. She first attracted notice with her play "Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off", and susequently with "Perfect Days", "Misery Guts" and her adaptation of "Medea".
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Educating Agnes: From Moliere's The School for Wives: From Moliere's The "School for Wives" (NHB Modern Plays)
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Paperback. Condition: New. A dark and wickedly funny farce about one man's twisted attempts to find a woman he can control completely. Adapted from Molière's classic comedy The School for Wives by Liz Lochhead, 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' (Scotland on Sunday).He's old, rich and determined to find the perfect wife. She's young, innocent and in debt to him. He'll have her by any means possible.'Wives like your one, those with all the smarts,The ballbreakers, they're the ones to break our hearts.So pick a simple girl - it's not rocket science!'Liz Lochhead's play Educating Agnes was first staged by Theatre Babel at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, in 2008. Seller Inventory # LU-9781854595331
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A dark and wickedly funny farce about one man's twisted attempts to find a woman he can control completely. Adapted from Moliere's classic comedy The School for Wives by Liz Lochhead, 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' (Scotland on Sunday).He's old, rich and determined to find the perfect wife. She's young, innocent and in debt to him. He'll have her by any means possible.'Wives like your one, those with all the smarts,The ballbreakers, they're the ones to break our hearts.So pick a simple girl - it's not rocket science!'Liz Lochhead's play Educating Agnes was first staged by Theatre Babel at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, in 2008.'A daft, boisterous, big-hearted comedy that merrily weaves references to Kinsey and Cosmo on to Moliere's 17th-century frame' Guardian'Lochhead has fashioned a fabulous script, working Moliere's playful rhymes into a robust, clever and hilarious Scots-English. shifts brilliantly between "high" and "low" registers, all the better to draw out the play's comedy of hypocritical sexual manners' Telegraph'Pure bliss. Lochhead's extraordinary facility for manipulating the meter has never been bettered. She exploits every trick in the book to make the verse sayable but maintain the comic effect' The Times Much-loved poet and playwright Liz Lochhead has rendered Molieres 17th-century romp into sparkling and often naughty Scots-inflected rhyming couplets for the premiere production by Glasgow-based Theatre Babel. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781854595331
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Paperback. Condition: New. A dark and wickedly funny farce about one man's twisted attempts to find a woman he can control completely. Adapted from Molière's classic comedy The School for Wives by Liz Lochhead, 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' (Scotland on Sunday).He's old, rich and determined to find the perfect wife. She's young, innocent and in debt to him. He'll have her by any means possible.'Wives like your one, those with all the smarts,The ballbreakers, they're the ones to break our hearts.So pick a simple girl - it's not rocket science!'Liz Lochhead's play Educating Agnes was first staged by Theatre Babel at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, in 2008. Seller Inventory # LU-9781854595331
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