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Mar 23, 2005 12:00 a.m. - Variety.com
Los Angeles: Husbands throughout the centuries have used various strategies to keep their wives from cheating. In Moliere’s "School for Wives," egotistical 42-year-old Arnolphe hatches a seemingly foolproof plan to foil adultery -- making sure his bride-to-be of 17 remains mindlessly dependent and bragging to a friend, "I told the nuns what means must be employed, to keep her growing mind a perfect void." The pleasure of "School for Wives," in a lively new version at A Noise Within, is watching him squash her intellectual growth only to learn that "the woman whose naivete keeps me in stitches" is far more clever and emotionally adventurous than he suspects.
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