The Washington Post, May 20th, 1987
Jean Baptiste Poquelin, better known by his stage name-Molie`re-had a fascinatingly frenetic life. The French satirist's personal history combined comic and tragic elements with an ironic complexity worthy of his own plays. In a relaxed, mostly engaging production of Mikhail Bulgakov's "Molie`re, or The Cabal of Hypocrites" at Moving Target Theatre, we glimpse the tears of the clown. First produced at the Moscow Arts Theater in 1939, Bulgakov's "Molie`re" is a stylized distillation of Molie`re's life, in which Bulgakov hints strongly at the nature-read "danger"-of political patronage to the ar...
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