The Comédie-Française is celebrating the 17th-century dramatist by recreating Tartuffe, the play that outraged the Catholic church and almost ended his career French theatre is gearing up to pay tribute to one of its founding fathers: Molière, the 17th-century playwright whose biting comedies still form many French schoolchildren's introduction to drama. On 15 January, 400 years after his baptism (the exact date…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM on January 10, 2022