Review of “School for Wives” – Barnstable Patriot

 
Non-traditional WHAT takes Moliere to School

Shakespeare on the Cape troupe features emerging stars

By Heather Wysocki
news@barnstablepatriot.com

Traditionally, arranged marriages and women lacking in worldly knowledge are commonplace on stage.
Traditionally, Moliere comedies feature corsets and bonnets, powdered wigs and elaborate words.
Traditionally, a play’s heroine wouldn’t be played by a man.
But Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre doesn’t concern [...]

“School for Wives” a Lesson in Comedy

 
 
‘School for Wives’ a lesson in comedy
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By DEBBIE FORMAN
STAFF WRITER
August 14, 2007 6:00 AM
WELLFLEET — Shakespeare on the Cape takes on Molière with an esprit de corps and mastery of style and gesture that is a grand tribute to the French playwright.
“The School for Wives” was first staged in [...]

“Moliere’s ‘School’ is anything but dull scholastics”

(Pictured from L to R: Ben Griessmeyer, Jack Matheson, Elliot Eustis, Elizabeth Stahlmann, Grant Heuke.)
Provincetown Banner
August 2, 2007
By Melora B. North
What fun. “School for Wives,” now on stage at the Julie Harris Stage at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, is a charming rendition of Moliere’s “L’Ecole des Femmes.” Translated from French into English couplets [...]

‘Kiddie Shakes’ Premieres in Mashpee!

SOTC performed at the Mashpee Commons yesterday in a brick-laid square in front of a Banana Republic.
Here are some of my favorite pictures from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, the first Kiddie Shakes production!
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