![]() ![]() ![]() It focuses on Tartuffe’s passionate relationship with the rich Orgon’s young second wife, the conflict between father and son and the opposition between Cléante’s progressive and libertine vision of the world and the conservative one espoused by Orgon and his mother. He has chosen this energetic, if not to say frenzied version of the play, which focuses on the crisis Tartuffe sets off when he enters the life of a rich family that is falling apart. ![]() This production marks Ivo van Hove’s reunion with the Troupe, which he worked with for his stagings of Les Damnés and Électre/Oreste, but it is also a reunion with Molière, whose Le Misanthrope and L’Avare he has already staged, but whom he is directing for the first time in France. The play we have known ever since, Le Tartuffe ou l’Imposteur, is a modified version dating from 1669, with a gentler pace and extended to five acts, whereas the first one comprised only three acts. It has been reconstructed thanks to the work of ‘theatrical genetics’ carried out by the historian Georges Forestier, who explains that this Tartuffe was censored by Louis XIV as the latter could not, on the one hand, be the champion of Catholic orthodoxy and, on the other, allow his favourite actor-author to perform this satire of false piety in his Parisian theatre. A jobseeker - Beneficiary of welfare support. ![]()
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