Tartuffe
@Cleveland Play House
April 5--26
216.242.6000
clevelandplayhouse.com
Howard Gollop
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Sheri Gross
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Mark Horning
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Laura Kennelly
“Everything old is new again”—can still hold true—
So don’t turn away when Tartuffe, the current Cleveland Play House production, is described as a “classic French farce.” It is and it isn’t.
Ranjit Bolt’s updated translation of Molière’s 17th-century satire, Tartuffe, directed by Jason O’Connell, sets the story in 1980s sitcom land. The characters’ outlandish reactions mock fashion and reaction, teens and adults, greed, and vanity, and, well—everything.
And they do it in (unobtrusive) verse. It’s a lot of fun, especially after the first few minutes that it takes us to settle in and get to know the family being swindled by the seemingly pious Mr. Tartuffe. The conniving Tartuffe (a convincing Tom Ford) has charmed the wealthy Orgon (a blustering Chris Thorn) into taking him into his home.
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Kate Klotzbach
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Gwendolyn Kochur
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Dr. Yuko Kurahashi
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Joey Morona
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