Educating Agnus
~ Liz Lochhead - M5,F2 - 9781854595331

Adapted from Molière's The School for Wives, this is a dark and wickedly funny farce about one man's twisted attempts to find a woman he can control completely

He's old, rich and determined to find the perfect wife

She's young, innocent and in debt to him

And he'll have her by any means possible ...

'Lochhead has fashioned a fabulous script, working Molière'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' ~ Times