French playwright Molière's original classic love story which is set in a sleepy, sunny town in the South of France is coming to the Nuffield Theatre.

The play is the tale of a prospective husband's obsessive fear of betrayal and his idea for the perfect spouse - young, attractive, not too intelligent, and, best of all programmed never, ever to look at anyone else.

Set in the South of France where the men are handsome, the women beautiful and eyes tend to rove - the play centres on Arnolphe, a middle-aged man.

After a lifetime admiring womankind, he has arrived at the conclusion that the best way to stop a wife cheating on her husband is extreme ignorance.

He comes up with the monstrous idea that to create this person, no girl should know anything except how to be the perfect housewife, and be loving and completely devoted to her husband.

He has his future wife Agnes, brought up at a convent school in complete seclusion, so that she will emerge faithful years later - but of course his plan backfires.

The young girl, with intelligent simplicity, unconsciously outwits him and falls in love with someone else leaving him out in the cold.