ITA on screen: Le Tartuffe ou l’Hypocrite
After the success of the ITALive livestreams, we are expanding the offer with ITA on screen. Registrations of livestreams on the big screen in one of ITA's halls.
On the occasion of Molière's 400th birthday, van Hove created Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite, the original version in 3 acts, which after its premiere in 1664 was banned by the king himself under great pressure from the Catholic Church. A unique opportunity to see this never-before-seen, energetic, even furious version starring France's very best actors.
ITA on screen
Run time 1 hour and 45 minutes, no intermission
Genre theatre
Language French, with English subtitles
ITA on screen
After the success of the ITALive livestreams, we are expanding the offer with ITA on screen. Registrations of livestreams on the big screen in one of ITA's halls. In February, during Brandhaarden festival, Who Killed My Father and The End of Eddy were shown in the Rabozaal. This fall, in addition to Ibsen House by the ITA ensemble / Simon Stonewe will also be showing Mist by Nederlands Dans Theater 1 / Damien Jalet / Kohei Nawa / Rahi Rezvani, Le Tartuffe ou l'Hypocrite by Comédie-Française / Ivo van Hove and La Reprise. Histoire(s) du théâtre (I) by IIPM / NTGent / Milo Rau.
ITA on screen: Le Tartuffe ou l’Hypocrite
This original version focuses on the crisis that Tartuffe's arrival causes in Orgon's wealthy family. Tartuffe is a beggar who recruits alms from churches, but Orgon sees a savior in him, who acts without self-interest and becomes his confidant and spiritual leader. Tartuffe, however, falls passionately in love with Orgon's young wife, and she falls in love with him, causing a heated conflict between him and his son. In addition, the contradiction flares up between a progressive view of the world supported by Cléante and the extremely conservative view of Orgon and his mother. Orgon himself, meanwhile, remains blind and deaf to all warnings that Tartuffe is a hypocrite, driven by self-interest. When Orgon decides to make Tartuffe his sole heir, the bomb explodes.
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"Molière's plays are family and marriage dramas, reflecting a changing society, torn between extremely conservative tendencies - based on the idea of a hierarchical and collective society - and more individual desires for emancipation, self-determination and freedom." Ivo van Hove
Credits
censored version of 1664 reconstructed by Georges Forestier
with the complicity of Isabelle Grellet
directed by Ivo van Hove
dramaturgy Koen Tachelet
scenography and light Jan Versweyveld
costumes An D'Huys
original music Alexandre Desplat
musical collaboration Solrey
sound Pierre Routin
video Renaud Rubiano
make-up Claire Cohen
assistant direction Laurent Delvert
assistant scenography Jordan Vincent
assistant light François Thouret
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with Claude Mathieu, Denis Podalydès, Loïc Corbery, Christophe Montenez, Dominique Blanc, Julien Frison, Marina Hands
and the actors from The Comédie-Française Academy Vianney Arcel, Robin Azéma, Jérémy Berthoud, Héloïse Cholley, Fanny Jouffroy, Emma Laristan
with the support of la Fondation pour la Comédie-Française