The play [Corneille's The Liar] is partly a social satire about how lies work . . .

"The play [Corneille's The Liar] is partly a social satire about how lies work within a society, within love, how lies are woven into the fabric of things. It shows how lies can feed love and actually create happiness. But my own personal view is that the play is a wonderful hymn to the artistic. In the same way that Shakespeare's The Tempest uses magic to talk about art, this play uses lying to talk about art. Because, basically, every artist is in some sense a liar, creating truth out of fiction. And in the end, the liar gets exactly what he wants by telling lies."

. . . David Ives . . . interviewed by Mervyn Rothstein . . . 17 April 2010 . . . "David Ives Adapts Corneille's The Liar in DC" . . .