Educating Agnes at the Oxford Playhouse.
A Review By Julia Gasper 17 May 2008
Liz Lochhead’s new translation of Molière’s classic “The School for Wives” makes a jolly good evening out. It is fast, funny and frisky, demanding bags of energy from the lead actors, especially Kevin McMonagle as Arnolphe, the elderly would-be husband of a virginal young bride. Arnolphe has to be on stage almost continuously throughout the five Acts, and this is a tour de force that he pulls off admirably. Arnolphe’s moods range from smugness, suspicion, astonishment, and bafflement to indignation, jealousy and rage as his plans to procure himself a perfectly submissive and faithful wife are utterly and totally frustrated.
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