’The bourgeois gentlemen’ is Moliere’s comedie-ballet that pits a striving merchant man (Monsieur Jourdain, the ’bourgeois’) against a cash-poor count (Dorante, the ’gentleman’). Introduce a low-birth ...

CHURCH HILL The Gunston Players this weekend will present a production of Moliere's "The Bourgeois Gentleman," a farce that examines the themes of snobbery and social climbing.

In Moliere's comedy, The Bourgeois Gentleman, the main character is utterly ridiculous: He tries just about anything to scratch his way into the noble upper class. Richard Strauss' music based on the ...