Molière's Tartuffe

Welcome to the home of the wealthy Orgon, where Tartuffe - a fraud and a pious imposter - has insinuated himself. He succeeds magnificently in winning the respect and devotion of the head of the house and then tries to marry his daughter, seduce his wife and scrounge the deed to the property. He nearly gets away with it, but an emissary from King Louis XIV arrives in time to recover the property, free Monsieur Orgon and haul Tartuffe off to jail. His duplicity is finally exposed and punished - but not before the author has mercilessly examined the evil that men can commit in the guise of religious fervor. A comedy about the dangers that imperil those who would believe only what they choose to believe despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary.