Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite
by Molière
Directed by Ivo van Hove
Richelieu
31 January 19 March 2023
Richelieu
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“Molière’s plays are family and marital dramas, reflecting a changing society, torn between resolutely conservative tendencies – based on an idea of total, hierarchical and collective cohesion – and more individual desires for emancipation and freedom.”
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Molière’s birth on 15 January 2022, Ivo van Hove reunited with the Troupe for their third collaboration, a production of Le Tartuffe ou l’Hypocrite, the original version in three acts, banned at its premiere in 1664 and reconstructed thanks to the work of ‘theatrical genetics’ overseen by Georges Forestier and Isabelle Grellet.
This energetic, if not to say frenzied version of the play, focuses on the crisis Tartuffe triggers when he enters the life of a rich family that is falling apart. It emphasises 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. Ivo van Hove sets the play in a non-realistic space, an installation intended to serve as a framework for what he views as a social experiment, reminding us that Tartuffe is a beggar who “is attributed the role of saviour and man of piety by Orgon, who finds in him a confidant and a spiritual master” so much so that, in order to “seal this unique bond, he decides to make Tartuffe his sole heir. That’s when the bomb explodes.”
Banned version in 3 acts and in verse restored by Georges Forestier, with the complicity of Isabelle Grellet
Premiered
15 January 2022
Salle Richelieu
ON TOUR
SWITZERLAND
COMÉDIE DE GENÈVE
13,14, 15 OC
Spectacle conseillé à partir de 14 ans.
Duration
1:50 (without intermission)
Venue
Creative team
Directed by: Ivo van Hove
Dramaturgy: Koen Tachelet
Scenography and light: Jan Versweyveld
Costumes: An D'Huys
Original music: Alexandre Desplat
Musical collaboration: Solrey
Sound: Pierre Routin
Video: Renaud Rubiano
Assistant direction: Laurent Delvert
Assistant scenography: Jordan Vincent
Assistant light: François Thouret
Distribution
the company
The Comédie-Française Academy
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Sanda
Bourenaneservante
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Vincent
Bretonservant
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Olivier
Debbaschservant
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Ipek
Kinayservante
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Alexandre
Manbonservant
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Clémentine
Billyservante
et les comédiennes et comédiens de l’Académie de la Comédie-Française
(distribution en cours)
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Gallery
Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite
Julien Frison, Dominique Blanc
Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite
Denis Podalydès, Christophe Montenez
Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite
Olivier Debbasch, Claude Mathieu, Ipek Kinay
Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite
Denis Podalydès, Marina Hands, Christophe Montenez
Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite
Christophe Montenez, Stéphane Varupenne
Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite
Denis Podalydès, Marina Hands
