“Abraham has stacked his cast with great talent all the way down to smaller parts (Johnathan Sousa as Mariane’s suitor, Monice Peter as a harried assistant, Rod Beattie as an unctuous bailiff and E.B. Smith as an officer bringing the final plot twist) and evidently worked long and hard with them to find the comic truth in their characters and exchanges.
The genius of Molière’s play is that he wraps up a potent critique — about how even the most sacred societal institutions (here, the Church).”