French billionaire Orgon, relocated to Los Angeles with his family, has fallen under the spell of Tartuffe, a radical American evangelist. So comprehensively is he hoodwinked that Tartuffe looks set to steal his fortune, drive away his son, seduce his wife and marry his daughter.Molière's classic comedy, adapted by Christopher Hampton and directed by the former dramaturg of the French People's National Theatre, Gérald Garutti, premiered in May 2018, the West End's first dual language theatre production.This is a bilingual edition of the text.
Les mer
A bilingual edition of the text of Moliere's classic comedy.
John Donnelly's smart, witty new version . . . Eschewing Molière's rhyming couplets (at least until the denouement), Donnelly's version pin-points a no less acute crisis of 'belonging' amid affluent metropolitans . . . Superbly played across the board, it's often laugh-a-minute stuff . . . It resonates, it detonates.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780571349340
Publisert
2018-06-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Vekt
193 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
176

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Christopher Hampton was born in the Azores in 1946. He wrote his first play, When Did You Last See My Mother?, at the age of eighteen. Since then, his plays have included The Philanthropist, Savages, Tales from Hollywood, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, White Chameleon, The Talking Cure, Appomattox and A German Life. Appomattox was turned into an opera by Philip Glass in 2014. He has translated plays by Ibsen, Molière, von Horváth, Chekhov and Yasmina Reza (including Art and Life x 3). He has translated seven plays by Florian Zeller, including The Father and The Son, both of which he subsequently co-wrote for the screen with Florian Zeller, winning an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Father in 2021. Musicals include Rebecca, Stephen Ward, Sunset Boulevard and The Third Man. His television work includes adaptations of The History Man, Hôtel du Lac and The Singapore Grip. His screenplays include The Honorary Consul, The Good Father, Dangerous Liaisons, Mary Reilly, Total Eclipse, The Quiet American, Atonement, Cheri, A Dangerous Method, Ali & Nino, Carrington, The Secret Agent and Imagining Argentina, the last three of which he also directed.