Le Tartuffe

Between classical rigour and sensuality of body, the Nouveau Théâtre Populaire offers a great Tartuffe, dizzying and straightforward. Beliefs, obscurantism, lies, love always... When Molière's luminous language is brought up to date! For fifteen years now, the Nouveau Théâtre Populaire has been spreading its craft in a spirit of sharing, combining artistic rigour, diversity of repertoire and accessibility. A revelation at the Festival d'Avignon 'In' when it was first performed, this Tartuffe directed by Léo Cohen-Paperman opens on a simple wooden stage, with the audience on either side. It's a space squeezed around the bodies that serves as a marvellous springboard for a band of actresses and actors with unbridled comic talent, gathered around an outrageous Tartuffe. Ready to destroy his family to satisfy this tyrannical director of conscience, Orgon will have his work cut out to free himself from his grip... Faithful to the simplicity of a theatre of trestles where acting exults, this is Molière as he is: close, intelligent, entertaining. In a word, popular!