A Love Story: How the Heartland Fell in Love with a 400-year-old French Comedic Playwright

C’est une histoire d’amour.

Like any good romance, there is a boy and a girl. The world conspires to keep them from one another.

A Love Story: How the Heartland Fell in Love With a 400-Year-Old French Comedic Playwright is the retelling of the historical saga how Kansas City artists, actors, and businesses band together to bring one woman’s vision to fruition: a much-anticipated 400th birthday celebration for one of the world’s most produced comedic playwrights, Molière.

Felicia Londré, Ph.D. and KC MOlière: 400 in 2022 endured the untimely death of two of their most ardent supporters, the pandemic, while overcoming the obstacle that many Americans had not heard of Molière. Despite the obstacles, Kansas City won international recognition for the number and variety of events related to his immortal comedy and their relation to Kansas City’s French heritage.

This is the story of two flyover states in the Heartland opening their arms to welcome the genius that is Molière.