the father of french theatre, his influence has been felt across the world. including here in the uk. earlier the bbc spoke to bafta winning aneel gupta, the man behind famous comedies including the office and citizan khan. he told us about his experience adapting moliere s play tartuffe into a story about a british pakistani family in modern day birmingham. i was expecting, i was thinking a 400 year old french comedy, those aren t things that go together, in my mind. so, i was very pleasantly surprised at how funny i found it, actually, and a realjoy of it and the real genius of moliere is the comic structure. you know, when you are constructing a farce, which this is, essentially, the comic structure. you know, when you are constructing a farce, which this is, essentially, it is an incredibly intricate and very difficult and precise thing to do, and what we realised when we read the original plate
the man behind famous comedies including the office and citizan khan. he told us about his experience adapting moliere s play tartuffe into a story about a british pakistani family in modern day birmingham. i was expecting, i was thinking a 400 year old french comedy, those aren t things that go together, in my mind. so, i was very pleasantly surprised at how funny ifound it, actually, and a realjoy of it and the real genius of moliere is the comic structure. you know, when you are constructing a farce, which this is, essentially, the comic structure. you know, when you are constructing a farce, which this is, essentially, it is an incredibly intricate and very difficult and precise thing to do, and what we realised when we read the original play was that structure is absolutely watertight. it is a gold plated structure and we really didn t change. we were given licence to change whatever we wanted,
a year of events to celebrate france s most famous playwright, moliere, are getting underway. it s the 400th anniversary of moliere s baptism; his birthdate isn t known. although he is considered the father of french theatre, his influence has been felt across the world. including here in the uk. earlier the bbc spoke to bafta winning aneel gupta, the man behind famous comedies including the office and citizan khan. he told us about his experience adapting moliere s play tartuffe into a story about a british pakistani family in modern day birmingham. i was thinking, a 400 year old, coat, comedy, those are not really things that go together necessarily in my mind so i was very pleasantly surprised at how funny i found it and the realjoy how funny i found it and the real joy of it how funny i found it and the realjoy of it and the real genius of molly, actually, is the comic structure, you know. when you are constructing a force, which this is, essentially, it is an incredibly intricate