TARTUFFE

by Moliere

A sparkling new version of one of the great comedies of the French theatre. Tartuffe, a fraud and a pious imposter, has insinuated himself into the home of the wealthy Orgon. He succeeds magnificently in winning the respect and devotion of the head of the house and then tries to marry his daughter and seduce his wife and scrounge the deed to the property. He nearly gets away with it, but his duplicity is ultimately exposed and punished. An examination of the evil which men can commit in the guise of religious fervour, presented in the form of a sparkling comedy.