VIDEO: Inside Rehearsal for TARTUFFE
By: Julie Musbach May. 25, 2018
Acclaimed film and television actor Paul Anderson will play the title role in Tartuffe at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, alongside celebrated stage and screen stars Audrey Fleurot, George Blagden, Sebastian Roché and Olivia Ross. In the West End's first ever dual-language production, Molière's classic comedy re-imagines Tartuffe as a radical American evangelist who uproots the life of a French film tycoon in Hollywood.
Go inside the rehearsal room with the cast below!
Tartuffe will premiere for a limited ten-week West End run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from Friday 25th May 2018 (Press Night on Tuesday 29th May).
L.A. Present day. French media tycoon Orgon has fallen under the seductive spell of Tartuffe, a radical evangelist. So comprehensively has Tartuffe hoodwinked Orgon that he looks set to steal his fortune, drive away his son, seduce his wife and marry his daughter.
As befitting the Theatre Royal Haymarket, which was known to the play-going world as 'The New French Theatre' following it's opening in 1720, this adaptation of Tartuffe will alternate between English with French surtitles and French with English surtitles to reflect the unfolding plot. The production is supported by the Institut Français.
Written in 1664, Tartuffe, or The Impostor became regarded as one of Molière's most celebrated comedies, complete with some of the greatest classical theatre roles. Set present day in Donald Trump's America, the play's trenchant mockery of human frailties remains as relevant as ever in this darkly comic adaptation of the classic satire.
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