(Pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673) French comic dramatist. In 1643, he became an actor and co-founder of the Illustre Theatre, for which he wrote his first plays, notable among them The Scatterbrain (1655), and The Amorous Vexation (1659). Sometimes called the father of modern French comedy, Moliere rejected the Italianate farces and the comedies of intrique dear to his predecessors, for his was a theater of relying on the sound observation of the foibles and complexities of the human nature and on an incomparable skill in humorous presentation.
Production/Credit | Where | Opening Night |
The Imaginary Invalid | Summit Playhouse Association | 2/27/2004 |
Tartuffe | Players Guild of Leonia | 10/17/2003 |
That Scoundrel Scapin | Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey | 7/16/2003 |
Stinkin' Rich ...... (Based on a Play) | Two River Theatre Company | 5/1/2003 |
Don Juan | McCarter Theatre | 4/30/2002 |
Tartuffe | Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey | 9/11/2001 |
The Bourgeois Gentleman | Major Theater Series (MSU) | 10/14/1999 |
The School for Wives | McCarter Theatre | 3/23/1999 |