Frederique Michel and Charles Duncombe continue their series of ribald, contemporary versions of Moliere's classic comedies with a new take on his masterpiece about religious hypocrisy. It's Tartuffe, the Reality Show Welcome to the glitzy, gaudy Beverly Hills mansion of the delightfully deluded businessman Orgon Pernelle. He rescues a homeless hustler from the street who pretends to be a pious preacher, but Orgon's family sees in Tartuffe what he doesn't: a masterly con-man. His trophy wife, his rebellious, spoiled children, and his naughty maid all want the cunning manipulator to be thrown...

Frederique Michel and Charles Duncombe continue their critically acclaimed series of classical French comedy with a sparkling new translation and adaptation of Moliere's farcical Sganarelle. One of Moliere's first works after his company had established itself in Paris, this wicked satire on fidelity and honor is a round-robin of mistaken suspicions and imaginary betrayals. Two couples - a doltish middle-class husband and his mistrustful wife, and a beautiful young girl and her handsome lover - mistakenly believe they have betrayed each other. The more they argue, scheme, plot, and attempt to...

Beaumarchais's notorious comedy was the most scandalous play of the 18th century-and its most incredible theatrical success. In this new translation-adaptation by Frederique Michel and Charles Duncombe, Beaumarchais's clever servants outwit, manipulate, and ultimately humiliate their corrupt master, the Count Almaviva, exposing him for the fraud he is. So subversive was the play considered in its depiction of the ruling classes that during World War II, Vichy France would not allow it to be performed. Michel and Duncombe bring it to new and vigorous life: a witty, sexy, outrageous, and...

Nominated for "Best Adaptation" by the LA Weekly, and a "Critic's Choice" in the Los Angeles Times, this sparkling new translation/adaptation of Moliere's classic comedy le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was described by the LA Times as a "gracefully loopy souffle" and an "unguarded hoot." Wealthy and foolish Monsieur Jourdain is in love with the Countess Dorimene 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...