The Liar @ Lansburgh

Every tuesday at 10am, the Shakespeare Theatre releases there under 35 tickets for shows that week. This was my second week calling in and there were seats available for thursday's show, The Liar. This was not a Shakespeare play, but a classic play writen by a frenchman, Pierre Corneille, in the early 1600s, about a young upwardly mobile gallant with a talent for... exaggeration. The re translation to english was quite modernized, sometimes a bit jarringly so, but in general made understanding the dialogue very easy. That being said, the dialogue was very funny, and well delivered. The plot was very complicated, filled with mistaken identities which seemed to be a signature of plays of this era. Looking over the upcoming season with a whole slate of plays, half Shakespeare, half not, I look forward to expanding our exposure to some of these classic playwrights.