Mamie Gummer, Jenn Gambatese, Hamish Linklater & More Set for The School for Lies at CSC

Mamie Gummer, Jenn Gambatese and Hamish Linklater will have leading roles in David Ives’ The School for Lies, a new adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope to be mounted by Classic Stage Company. The play will begin previews on April 13 at CSC’s off-Broadway home and open on May 1, for a limited engagement through May 22, directed by Walter Bobbie.

Gummer, whose theater credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, CSC’s Uncle Vanya and off-Broadway productions of The Water’s Edge, Hunting and Gathering and Mr. Marmalade, will play the heroine Celimene. Gambatese (Is He Dead?, Tarzan, All Shook Up) will play Elainte, and Linklater (The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Hamlet) will play Frank. No word on whether Frank is the equivalent of Alceste, Moliere’s title “misanthrope,” or how Ives has adapted the 17th century comedy of manners.

Also set to appear in The School for Lies are Stephen Boyer (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) as Dubois/Basque, Frank Harts (A Raisin in the Sun) as Clitander, Rick Holmes (Spamalot) as Oronte, Hoon Lee (Yellow Face) as Philante and Matthew Maher (Richard III) as Acaste.

Ives and Bobbie previously collaborated on CSC’s hit productions of Venus in Fur and New Jerusalem, as well as on other productions over the course of 15 years.

The design team for The School for Lies will include scenery John Lee Beatty, costumes by William Ivey Long, lighting by Peter Kaczorowski, hair design by Paul Huntley and sound by Acme Sound Partners.