The Illusion is a seventeenth-century comic farce that follows a father’s thwarted search for his long lost son. Along the way he enlists the help of a sorcerer who conjures up images from his son’s life. All is not what it seems as the father watches the ill-fated romances, violent duels, and plenty of intrigue that surrounds his son’s life. Will father and son be reunited and reconciled? What is the nature of love? The Illusion, freely adapted from Pierre Corneille’s L’Illusion Comique, is Kushner’s most joyfully theatrical play, a wildly entertaining tale of passion and regret, of love, disillusionment and magic.
