Piety In Tartuffe

In Moliere's Tartuffe, the entire play is set in the Orgon’s house. It starts off with Madame Pernelle leaves because she believes everyone in the house are behaving immorally. The only person she gives praise to is Tartuffe in which everyone but Orgon despises because they believe he is a fake. Orgon, obsessed with the piety of Tartuffe, invites him to stay as a guest in his house. Cleante tries to get Orgon to see through Tartuffe, but Orgon says he has seen Tartuffes piety first hand and reuses to believe him to be corrupt. Later he says that Marianne is to marry Tartuffe even though it was already accepted that she would marry someone else. Later Elmire leads Tartuffe into a room where Orgon is hiding and when he agrees to sleep with her

This almost gets Jack in a duel with another man named Bob Acres, and it is this disguise that also is the catalyst to many other comical moments that happen in the play. Later, Captain Jack is even put in a position to be rejected by none other than Lydia’s aunt, Mrs. Malaprop, who gives us many laughs with her misuse of words that are meant to seem intelligent. By the end of it everything is resolved in a serious way, but along the way are many hysterical moments to get us to the ending. My opinion of the show was that it is rather witty and makes you laugh often throughout the entire show. The actors played their part brilliantly and really emphasized certain parts of their speech at the right times to really sell the script. The set design was interesting in the fact that it they could make many scenes just off six doors and a building in the back. I am not sure what was flying in and out, but the guess is that soft goods were attached to a fly system to help reinforce the idea of different places. Everything in the design aspect was a period piece. Nothing stood out of this period and really put me in the 18th century period. Overall, this production was enjoyable and would be worth experiencing in a playhouse rather than a computer