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May 27, 2009

Sucker Punch: Journeymen’s Tartuffe

Jesse Terrill tries Steve Beall’s patience in Journeymen’s sharp production of Moliere’s Tartuffe. Written by DCist contributor Andrej Krasnansky. How can a 17th-century play, written entirely in rhyming couplets and aimed at the French aristocracy, be relevant today? The same way even Clinton-era South Park is still enjoyable: Concentrated satire has a long shelf life. Moliere’s play Tartuffe portrays a rich man, Orgon, taken in by Tartuffe, a sinner wearing the hairshirt of a…

 
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