When three different theatre troupes stage the same play, one right after the other on the same day, same venue, you would think the audience would be bored stiff.
But no way. Not when Alliance Francaise had organised a theatre competition as a way of celebrating the 400th birthday of their country’s finest playwright, the 17th Century dramatist Jean Baptiste Poquelin, popularly known as Moliere, the brilliant satirist whose biting wit and incisive humour sliced deep into French society. Moliere’s comedies are seen as classics and adored by the French despite their generating public outcries over the centuries for their putting a spotlight on the scandalous and socially sensitive.
