The Liar 09-10

“Having been bowled over by the play, I had to consider how to render this luminous world in English. There was one thing that I knew right away: it had to be in verse, just as it is in Corneille. The Liar is a portrait of a brilliant performer and, language being the wire Dorante dances upon, the language had to match his agile mind at every turn. Prose would have turned this into a Seinfeld episode and made it banal. Only rhyme would do.”
–David Ives (playwright) in An American Classic: Shakespeare Theatre Company

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Christian Conn*
Dorante

David Sabin*
Geronte

Adam Green*
Clinton

Erin Partin*
Clarice

Miriam Silverman*
Lucrece

Tony Roach*
Alcippe

Aubrey Deeker*
Philiste

Colleen Delany*
Isabelle/Sabine
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Michael Kahn
Director

Alexander Dodge
Set Designer

Murell Horton
Costume Designer

Jeff Croiter
Lighting Designer

Adam Wernick
Composer

Martin Desjardins
Sound Designer

Ellen O’Brien
Voice and Dialect Coach

Frank Ventura
Period Movement Consultant

Alan Paul
Assistant Director

Akiva Fox
Literary Associate

William Shiner*
Production Stage Manager

Elizabeth Clewley*
Assistant Stage Manager

Stuart Howard, Amy Schecter and Paul Hardt
Casting
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