Theater - The School for Wives

February 18–21, 1987

A play by Molière

Translated by Richard Wilbur

 

Production Staff

Director: James Fisher

Assistant Director: Mark Hayes '88

Set and Light Designer: Brian R. Jones '82

Costume Designer: Laura Conners

Stage Manager: Tyce Light '87

Assistant Stage Manager: David Schulz '88

 

Cast List

Arnolphe: Bradley Rickel '87

Agnes: Victoria James-Williams

Horace: Jim Amidon '87

Alain: Paul Boger '87

Georgette: Lynne Galassini-Jones

Chrysalde: Chris Brown '89

Enrique: Brian Engquist

Oronte: Michael Keller '88

A Notary: David Schulz '88

 

Production Assistance

Master Electrician: Mike Shaw '87

Lighting Crew: Brian Caplin'89, Mark Fritz '88

Lighting Board Operator: Phil Woods '88

Propsmaster: David Schulz '88

Properties Crew: Jon Jessup '90, Craig Lockerbie '90

Soundboard Operator: Kevin Sheridan '90

Sound Technicians: Phil Woods '88, Vic Kedinger, Peter Keenan '89

Costume Crew: David Schulz '88, Mark Hayes '88

Graphics: Laura Conners

 

 

This delightful play about a provincial bourgeois named Arnolphe who, in Molière's first great verse comedy, lives with the irrational fear of being a cuckold. He has avoided marriage for many years fearing his own possible humiliation, while happily gloating over his neighbors who have been deceived by their spouses.  He has become guardian of a child named Agnes, who grows into a beautiful woman, hidden away from the world by Arnolphe who has schooled her to be the “perfect wife.” As the play begins, Arnolphe is about to marry Agnes and achieve double satisfaction: he will quiet his long trepidation by marrying safely, and he will have the prideful pleasure of showing the world how to rig an infallible alliance. It goes without saying that Agnes is not his object but his victim. Of the four verse plays by Molière that Richard Wilbur has translated into English, The School for Wives is widely considered his best.

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