Tartuffe l'essentiel vendredi 27 et samedi 28 novembre 26

Compagnie des passages is driven by the desire and deep conviction that it is essential to bring great texts to the widest possible audience, in forms that are simple, concrete, and accessible to everyone. This does nothing to diminish our artistic standards—in fact, quite the opposite.

With Tartuffe l’essentiel, Compagnie des passages continues its exploration of classical texts (Les femmes savantes, so what).

There are 5 of us performers, playing different characters in a very simple stage setting:

A table, 3 chairs, wigs, and two or three costume pieces… Molière remains, for me, an author whose work continues to resonate extraordinarily well with the ills of our contemporary society... Is that good news? It’s not certain, but it is a sign of the great authors.

What? You make no distinction

Between hypocrisy and devotion?

You wish to treat them in the same way,

And honor the mask as much as the face,

Those people, I say, whom we see with uncommon zeal

Pursuing their fortune along the path to Heaven,

Who know how to reconcile their fervor with their vices,

Are quick to anger, vindictive, faithless, full of deceit

(…) All the more dangerous in their fierce anger

Because they take up against us weapons we revere

We must never forget that Tartuffe can exist only through Orgon’s blindness, and the fascination this character holds for him.

Directed by Wilma Lévy, with Margaux Dupré, Martin Kamoun, Wilma Lévy, Stina Soliva, Brahim Tekfa

Stage manager: Fabien Massard.

Organized by: Compagnie des passages

Compagnie des passages has been based in Marseille since 2008. It is a theater company focused on contemporary creation through authors’ texts, as well as documentary theater, or theater of reality.

https://www.helloasso.com/associations/compagnie-des-passages