Title: La troupe du roi
Description: Washington Performing Arts Society, Todd Duncan, president, Patrick Hayes, managing director, and S. Hurok, presents by arrangement with the French government Comedie Francaise, "La Troupe du Roi," homage to Moliere, an evocation produced by Paul-Emile Deiber, performed by the entire company of the Comedie Francaise now in the United States, texts by Moliere, La Grange and Boileau, musical accompaniment taken from Jean-Baptiste Lully and Antoine Charpentier. Scenes from: Les Precieuses Ridicules, L'Ecole des Femmes, L'Impromptu de Versailles, Tartuffe, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Les Fouberies de Scapin, L'Avare.