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Review
Lies,TheTemptation
YouCouldn’tResist
By KimRo-na
involvedinthecoverup.
GuestReporter
Ray Cooney does not make any of his characters superior to others,
regardless of whom they are. The liars have good jobs and families in
M
any have dreamed about winning Nanum Lotto
contrasttotheircounterpartswhoreluctantlywindupintheconsequences
6/45.Upuntil8o’clockeverySaturday,millionsof
havinglowersocialstatus.Turnedintoscapegoatsoftheirfriend’ssmall
Koreans hold and stare their lucky lottery tickets,
lies,theircounterpartsshowmorenaivetyandrigidnessthantheliarsand
even if the chances for disappointment is high. Let’s say you
do most of labor by rushing and dashing onto and off the stage by
happen to pick up a brief case with 10 trillion won in it on your
wrongfully being accused of being perverts, womanizers, and other such
way home. What would you do? Are you going to report the lost
things. Also, every character’s behavior and words ridicule them by
propertytoapolicestation?Or,willyoutakeit?Whenitcomesto
revealingtheirfoolishness.
moneyproblems,it’shardtoseeafairandmoralresponse.Andwhat
In“RoomNo.13:OutofOrder,”asuperficiallypompouscongressman,
ifthemoneybelongedtothemafiaandnoonecanclaimit?Whotakes
Richard Wiley, shows how a politician’s rhetoric and negotiation skills
the money, owns it. What you need to do is only figuring out how to
malfunction and turn his innocent secretary, George Pidgen, into a
disappear with a fortune quickly so that no one chases you. However,
newlywed, psychiatrist, and womanizer. Both of them are struggling
holdingontoyourluckprovesharderthanyoumightguess.Thisishow
becauseofbeingoutwittedfortheiruselesspersistenceandthattheyand
Ray Cooney’s play,“Funny Money,”rumbles its characters into a
their counterparts are not strong enough to cut off useless friends. Also,
breathtakingseriesoflies.
eveninotherplays,Cooney’scharactersactcontrarytotheirjobethics:a
A prolific British playwright and actor, Ray Cooney knows the
cop extorting money from citizens, an accountant feeling no shame on
consequencestheseliarswillfallinto.Bymakinghisplayafarce,atype
taking others’money, an ordinary family man maintaining his bigamy,
of play in which Shakespeare put characters into unexpected situations,
andabellboyworkingonlywhenpaid.
Cooney has written series of hilarious plays where actors rush onto the
RayCooneyusesmoneyandwomen,themostfundamentaltemptations
stagetogenerateheartylaughsfromtheaudiencebycruellystrugglingin
that motivate his characters to rush into lies. Although he exaggerates
thesequenceofliestheytrapthemselvesintogetoutofstickysituations.
thesesituationsinhisfarce,whilelaughingattheactors’chaoticstruggles,
This is all about temptations people couldn’t resist: lies. The
the audience knows that the plays depict their own innate lust with the
temptation of a lie, especially a small one, produces massive force to
PapaProdcution
pullpeopledown. Buthowaboutconsequencesthatfollowswhenone
enjoyslying?Whenapersonisluckyenough,smallliescanoftensave
his or her days. However, as we all know, a lie is not a magic spell
afterall.
NoNobleMenOutThere
TherearesomeformulasbeneathCooney’splay.First,thereare
alwaystwomenplayingthemaincharactersmakeendlessliesto
overcome their consequences of previous lies. Among the two,
In “Liar 3: Funny Money”, Young-ho, an ordinary accountant finds a bag of
one always lies to prevail upon others for his greed what he
fortune and turns his friend, Hyun-jun as a gay who winds up dreadfully to
describesastrueloveorlittlefun,whileforcinghisfriendtoget
keepthemoneyforYoung-ho
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