Molière tartuffe

A talented staging: masks, disguises and chests plunge us into the “commedia del arte” atmosphere of the itinerant strollers of yesteryear.

The performance is teeming with finds: the violin describes gossip, joy is expressed by loud slaps. The catchy actors alternate the classical text with more contemporary songs. For example, that of Dalida, « Words and words and words … caramels, candies and chocolates ».

And yet, it is long. Is it the fault of the summer heat in a small room, not air conditioned and packed to the brim? Or is it the number of “staging tricks” and “contemporary digressions” that are used?

Even if we are dazzled by the quality of this revisited Molière, we wait with a little impatience for the too frequent songs to end because they stretch the show by breaking the action.
A great performance that would benefit from being downright shortened.

Tartuffe at the Optimist 50 rue Guillaume Puy Avignon