WINNIPEG -- When the preview audience is laughing out loud in the first three minutes, you know you're doing something right. And Manitoba Theatre Centre takes plenty of right turns with Moliere's witty farce The School for Wives.

Under director Martha Henry's unseen hand, the 17th-century comedy strikes a direct hit with 21st-century audiences, opening with one of puppeteer Luman Coad's delicious scene-setting pantomimes and immediately introducing standout lead Hardee T. Lineham as the hilariously frustrated villain Arnolphe.
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Wives 400 years old yet still fresh
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