Opening Night: 25 March 2006 
Author: Molière
Title: Tartuffe, or The Impostor
Original Title: Le Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur
Director: Jacques Lassalle

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall 

Running time: 2 hours 40 min including one interval

 

Tartuffe, or The Impostor

A biting satire and the arrogance of language. Masterful acting and sophisticated scenography. A fresh look at the masterpiece in a new translation by Jerzy Radziwiłowicz.

The bitter comedy of Molière was so infuriating to its contemporary audience, bigots in particular, that Louis XIV forbade its performance for 5 years. Jacques Lassalle portrays 17th-century France. A dimmed light fills stylish interiors and illuminates elegant period costumes. But it is actors who are the most important – by making an audience laugh, they expose insincerity, scheming and cruelty. The story of the demonic liar and hypocrite turns out to be still relevant.


director: Jacques Lassalle 
associate director: Edward Wojtaszek 
set design: Dorota Kołodyńska 
music: Jacek Ostaszewski 
lighting design: Mirosław Poznański 


Awards and Nominations:

2006 – nomination for the Warsaw Felix award in "the best actor" category for Wojciech Malajkat for the role of Tartuffe

Cast:

  • Madame Pernelle, mother of Orgon Anna Chodakowska
  • Orgon, husband of Elmire Jerzy Radziwiłowicz 
  • Elmire, wife of Orgon Danuta Stenka 
  • Damis, son of Orgon Marcin Przybylski / Modest Ruciński (till May 31, 2013; as a guest actor from September 1, 2012)
  • Mariane, daughter of Orgon and the fiancée of Valère Karolina Gruszka (till November 20, 2008) / Lidia Sadowa (guest actor; from January 9, 2009 till April 16, 2015)/ Milena Suszyńska (from November 17, 2012 till October 20, 2019; as a guest actor from September 1, 2021) / Paulina Szostak 
  • Valère, the fiancée of Mariane Przemysław Stippa 
  • Cléante, brother-in-law of Orgon Jacek Mikołajczak
  • Tartuffe Wojciech Malajkat (as a guest actor from October 1, 2008)
  • Dorine, family housemaid Beata Ścibakówna
  • Monsieur Loyal, a bailif Henryk Talar (till May 17, 2015; as a guest actor from September 26, 2012)Paweł Tołwiński (from September 15, 2015)
  • A King's Officer Marek Barbasiewicz 
  • Flipote, servant of Madame Pernelle Marta Chodorowska (guest actor; till April 15, 2015) Izabela Gwizdak (guest actor; till February 15, 2013) / Irena Sierakowska (guest actor; till December 6, 2013) / Paulina Korthals (from June 3, 2013) Joanna Gryga (from June 14, 2022) 
  • Laurent, servant of Tartuffe Bartłomiej Bobrowski Tomasz Marciniak (guest actor; till March 2, 2008) /Karol Pocheć (from October 28, 2008)

Production team:

  • director's assistant: Anna Smolar
  • set designer's assistants: Jadwiga Michalska, Anita Trzaskowska
  • sound technicians: Mariusz Maszewski, Marek Szymański, Hubert Majewski
  • lighting technicians: Zbigniew Szulim, Bartłomiej Kaczalski
  • stage manager: Krzysztof Kuszczyk
  • prompter: Anna Leszczyńska

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