'SPLITTING HEIRS' APPARENT FUN

Roanoke Times & World News | May 12, 2008| | Copyright

Seventeenth-century French farce is perhaps the last thing you'd expect at a new-play festival, but Mill Mountain Theatre dared to do it and the results are quite satisfactory, thank you.

Contemporary playwright Freyda Thomas' "Splitting Heirs" isn't really a 300-year-old French comedy, of course. It's her lively adaptation of "Le Legataire Universel," a farce by Jean-Francois Regnard, who was an ardent disciple of Moliere.

Actually, Thomas' adaptation isn't really new either. Commissioned by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, it premiered in 1986 (as "The Heir Transparent").

But enough with ...

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