School for Trophy Wives
by Freyda Thomas

School for Trophy Wives is loosely based on Molière’s L’Ecole des Femmes .

It is set in present day Hollywood, with all the accompanying glitz, glamour, and garishness we have come to know and spoof in Tinseltown.

In this version, Arnolphe is Arnie, a Hollywood producer who has finally made it big after years of clawing his way to the top.

He now wants to settle down with a wife and kids.

He is MUCH older than his protégée Agnes, whom he found on a farm when she was 4, “adopted” as his ward, and raised, until he realizes, at her graduation, that she would be a perfect wife for him.

Having made fun of his colleagues and all their trophy wives over the years, he must take special care that no whiff of scandal will ever hit him from the cover of People Magazine or the Hollywood Reporter, and that his wife will never adhere to the “trophy standards” his friends have had to deal with.

This is where Molière comes in, but with some 21st century flair.