Bitter Comedy

<p>Molière the world-famous classic dramatist lived played and wrote three hundred years ago. Son of the court tapestry-maker to Louis XIV of France Jean-Baptiste Poquelin became an actor and then taking the stage-name Molière himself brought to the stage all the weakness and gaucheness that the tumultuous age set before him every day as France developed a middle class. He depicted the social climber in Les Fâcheux turned his murderous humour on the hypocrite in Tartuffe disparaged the money-worshipping bourgeois in L’Avare… And the list might go on and on of his creations plays which for three hundred years have given audiences so much pleasure and entertainment – and still do today. Bitter Comedy Miklós Rónaszegi’s vie romancée presents a lucid account of the life and times of the universally-acclaimed dramatist and of the genesis of his works.</p><p>www.ronaszegimiklos.com</p>