The action of the play takes the audience back to the days when Louis XIV, also known as the Sun King, was a young and carefree King of France, whose mind was preoccupied mostly with glamorous entertainment, sumptuous dinners, hunting, dancing in balls and young mistresses rather than government affairs. The story begins when Louis the Great, puzzled about how to deal with the intrigues of the court, shady dealings and backstabbing, gets acquainted with Jean-Baptiste, the son of a court upholsterer Poquelin, considered an idle and reckless young man by his father. Jean-Baptiste, who assumed the name Molière in the hope of a particular theatrical privilege, offers the king an amusing way out of a tangled situation…

Performance Director – Yuri Solomin

Scenography – Alexander Glazunov

Composer – Grigory Gobernik

Costume Designer - Vyacheslav Zaitsev

Lighting Designer – Damir Ismagilov

Choreographer – Natalia Tsybulskaya

Assistant Directors – Vladimir Egorov and Natalia Demidova

Premiere – December, 2014

Running Time: 3h 15min

Suitable for 12+yrs