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Characters: 7 male, 3 female Comedy, Adaptation Unit set The Miser is a new adaptation of Moliere's most famous prose play by celebrated Moliere adaptor Freyda Thomas (The Learned Ladies, Tartuffe: Born Again). This side-splitting, comedic classic has all the hilarious elements of the original and is set in a pre-20th Century period, where marriages could be forced upon one's children. In The Miser, the elderly Harpagon obsesses over the feeling that he never has enough money, and unfortunately his obsession wreaks havoc on all around him. This includes his two children, Elise and Cleante, who are passionately in love with a valet and the girl next door, respectively. While Harpagon's arranged them to be married to absurdly mismatched types, the two smart children plot against their frugal father until all erupts in a climatic dinner, and truths are revealed. A classic perfect for all audiences.

School for Trophy Wives is loosely based on Moli re's L'Ecole des Femmes. It is set in present day Hollywood, with all the accompanying glitz, glamour, and garishness we have come to know and spoof in Tinseltown. In this version, Arnolphe is Arnie, a Hollywood producer who has finally made it big after years of clawing his way to the top. He now wants to settle down with a wife and kids. He is MUCH older than his prot g e Agnes, whom he found on a farm when she was 4, "adopted" as his ward, a

Ms. Thomas' previous and similar rollicking version of Moliere's Les Femmes Savantes delighted audiences off-Broadway in 1991, in a production starring Jean Stapleton as Philamente, a blossoming literary lady on the verge of coming into her own. It was re-imagined in 1993 at ACT in San Francisco, with many productions throughout the country since then. During the Salon movement of the 17th century, women, thirsty for knowledge and freedom, began to read, discuss and absorb all the learni

Eraste is in love with Isabelle but the only way her mother will let her marry him is if his uncle Geronte names him heir to his fortune which the miserly old man is doubtful to do. It's up to the help of the two servants Lisette and Crispin to don disguises and scheme those around them to wed the young lovers and even have a chance at love themselves. Loosely based on the eighteenth-century farce by Jean-Francois Regnard Freyda Thomas gives even more life to this lesser-kn