Tartuffe

By Moliere
Directed by Paul Barnes
Performed in the Hartshorn Theatre

Highly controversial and banned from public performance for years after its writing, Moliere’s classic caveat of religious hypocrisy opens with an apparently devout and pious stranger, going by the name of Tartuffe, worming his way into the wealthy home of Orgon. While other family members see the interloper for the con man he is, Orgon becomes so enamored with this false saint that he plans to force his daughter to marry the man and disinherit his son in order to make Tartuffe the sole heir to his fortune. This vastly entertaining satire is a dazzling example of “Pray as I say, not as I do.”