Dartington Playgoers: Tartuffe by Molière

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Wed Nov 27 2024 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm

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Dartington Trust, TQ9 6 Totnes, United Kingdom | Totnes, EN

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Ever met a guru and wondered what people saw in him?
The Dartington Playgoers perform Tartuffe, Molière’s timeless comedy of religious hypocrisy, translated in verse by Roger McGough. This event is in Studio 1.
TARTUFFE: “….A born again horny, Slippery dipper, a two faced shyster, a smarmy old letch…”
The Dartington Playgoers, directed by Patrick Cooper, perform Molière’s classic comedy, Tartuffe.
Molière was brilliant at getting under people’s skin, and his portrait of a fake holy man worming his way into the heart of a bourgeois family did just that: it was banned immediately by the Archbishop of Paris, with the threat of excommunication for even reading it. It was the king himself, Molière’s patron Louis XIV, who came to the rescue, and the play has lived on ever since, one of the most loved and performed of all French plays. It’s also very funny!
While the church no longer holds the sway it did even a generation ago, there are still plenty of fake ‘gurus’ peddling their spirituality for profit. Some of them bear an uncanny resemblance to Tartuffe. In its essence, this playful, sometimes dark, satire on human folly, feels timeless.
ROGER MCGOUGH, brilliant Liverpool poet, has brought the play to contemporary life with a sparkling rhymed translation that keeps close (but not too close) to Moliere’s original. We hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we do!
Tickets £12 | Students £8
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