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Tartuffe (full-length version)
adapted by Timothy Mooney
from the play by Moliere
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GENRE Comedy
LENGTH Full-length, 90-105 minutes
CAST 5 females, 5 males, 2 either (12-15 actors possible: 4-7 females, 5-9 males)
SET Multiple entrances and exits and two hiding places.
NOTES Adult language
When the religious hypocrite Tartuffe ingratiates himself into the good graces of Orgon and his mother Mme. Pernelle, he is taken into their home and promised Orgon's daughter's hand in marriage (even as he secretly attempts to seduce Orgon's wife, Elmire). Everyone else in the family sees through Tartuffe's pose, and his machinations and hypocrisies are eventually exposed, but is it too late to save the family from eviction and to keep Orgon from being thrown in prison? Moliere's classic comedy satirizes religious hypocrisy, blind piety, and deceit, and this adaptation captures these themes in playful irreverent rhyme. (A short version of this play is also available.)

"Accomplished and funny... Moliere would doubtless have enjoyed all of the contemporary guffaws that Mooney's irreverent version of this timeless comedy provokes from a modern audience."
--Windy City Times
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Other plays by this author:
  • The Imaginary Invalid (full-length version)
  • The Miser (full-length version)
  • The Schemings of Scapin (full-length version)
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  • Ellen Morley and Allan Monroe in Tartuffe, Stage Two Theatre, Highwood, IL (1997)
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