A masterpiece by one of the greatest playwrights in French and Western literature, Molière, The Bourgeois Gentleman is a satire filled with humour. By choosing to reproduce the play in its original form of a comédie ballet accompanied by music from Lully, Director Denis Podalydès (from the Comédie Française) assembles all the art forms: theatre, music and dance. With this theatrical party piece costumed by Christian Lacroix, he targets the triumph of the senses so very much hoped for by the story’s hero. ABOUT THE PLAY Monsieur Jourdain, a bourgeois, wants to acquire the manners of an aristocrat, and throws himself into learning fencing, dance, and music, all of which he sees as indispensable to a gentleman. Dismissing his daughter’s wedding because her fiancé is not from high society, Monsieur Jourdain gets duped by a young man who, disguised as the Sultan of Turkey, will make him the top rank of nobility in a foolish but hilarious ceremony.