"Moliere" by Mikhail Bulgakov (1984 TV) part 5 of 11

adapted by Dusty Hughes from Helen Rappaport's translation of "Moliere, or, The union of hypocrites." by Mikhail Bulgakov

Antony Sher (Moliere/Bulgakov)
John Carlisle (Louis XIV/cabalist)
David Bradley (Voice of Stalin, Charron)
Penelope Beaumont (Madeleine)
David Shaw-Parker (du Croisy, Marquis de Lessac, Brother Fidelity)
Kathy Behan (Mariette Rivalle, unknown woman)
Simon Clark (an actor, cabalist)
David Troughton (Bouton)
Michael Fitzgerald (prompter, guard)
George Parsons (charlatan, Father Bartholomew, Brother Strength)
Christopher Bowen (Lagrange)
Sara Mair-Thomas (Armande)
Malcolm Storry (one eye)
Chris Hunter (Moirron)
Brian Parr (honest cobbler)
Sylvia Coleridge (Rene)

Director, Bill Alexander

The BWW News Desk writes:

Jean-Baptiste Molière is on top of the world - at the centre of Louis XIV's court, author of countless popular hits, and in love with a woman half his age. But what the audiences see as sparkling satire, the authorities see as dangerous and subversive. As soon as he takes a wrong step, his fall from grace is assured.

Assailed by rumours and tracked by the secret police, Molière's private life starts to fall apart. In this world of whispers and distortions, everyone is vulnerable. But not everyone has a theatre to run.

Inspired by real-life events and written under the shadow of Stalin, Molière is about a man's fight to keep his integrity under a repressive regime.

Playwright and novelist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) was the most original writer of the Stalinist era, turning out outspoken, satirical works, even as his contemporaries were arrested and killed. He is probably best known for "The Master And Margarita", published 26 years after his death and now the favourite book of four out of five Russians.

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