Aug 31, 2008
The Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Molière
Critic's Choice! -- LA Times
Go! -- LA Weekly
City Garage presents the world premiere of a new adaptation of Moliere’s classic comedy le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Wealthy and foolish Monsieur Jourdain is in love with the Countess Dorimène and aches to be what he is not—a member of the aristocracy. Determined to overcome his low birth with an “education” in high style, he unwittingly surrounds himself with charlatans and swindlers who gleefully take his money and prey on his innocence. Ingenious servants, pedantic masters, devious nobles, and earnest young lovers all propel this delightful satire of nouveau riche social climbers. And, in the end, is the “nobility” to which Jourdain so ardently aspires all that admirable?

