So Roger McGough has dusted off his schoolboy French and has written a new adaptation of Moliere's classic Tartuffe for the people down at the Playhouse.
The Mersey Sound poet was at a lunch yesterday to unveil the next tranche of shows for 2008 at the Playhouse and Everyman.
Because I'm having one of those weeks (turning up for the Joseph press night 24 hours early - although I still maintain I'd been given that date) I managed to go to the wrong theatre and dashed in to the right one, the Everyman, hot and bothered just before the start of the announcement.
McGough revealed he had actually studied Tartuffe at university, but when he came to write the new Playhouse version he realised the 40-year-old notes he hoped to crib from were among his archives handed over to the University of Liverpool in November.
He has translated much of the dialogue in rhyming couplets so it should be interesting to see whether we hear more Jean Baptiste Poquelin or Roger Joseph McGough in the new version.
Or what he has managed to rhyme "tartuffe" with.
Another of the plays destined for the stage this summer is Esther Wilson's Ten Tiny Toes at the Everyman.
Wilson, who was one of the main writers on Unprotected, was inspired by the campaigning of soldier Gordon Gentle's mother Rose to find out the truth after her son was killed in Iraq.
The Playhouse/Everyman also revealed that bums-on-seats figures are up a tremendous 63% so far this year in yet another Capital of Culture success story.
Apparently 3,000 of the 7,500 people who saw Three Sisters on Hope Street were first-time bookers at the Everyman.
I suspect you ain't seen nothing yet.
Wait until the tickets go on sale for "the Poss" Pete Postlethwaite.
