ON TOUR / Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite

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.