Tartuffe

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Schaubuehne am Lehniner Platz

Without trust, every human relationship becomes impossible. Orgon’s family mistrusts Tartuffe, and increasingly so, the more the patriarch places his trust in him. Their suspicions are proven right. Tartuffe is a sanctimonious hypocrite who preys upon people’s gullibility for his own profit. Moli?re adversaries were the hypocritical clerics of his day who fought tooth and nail to prevent »Tartuffe« from being performed. Eventually, the king sanctioned the performance, in a similar way to the regal turn for the best he displays in the actual play. The gullible Orgon is saved, the family remains intact and the daughter can marry her lover. Moli?re presents the hypocrite and his victim to an audience who at no point are left in any doubt of the evil intentions being pursued and the extent of Orgon’s naivety which prevents him from figuring them out. Evil draws its power not from its concealment: on the contrary, it is very easily spotted. But Orgon, like all of us, is compelled more often than not to trust people and the world if he wants to live.

Schaub?hne am Lehniner Platz

TARTUFFE by Moli?re

Cast / Creative Team

Orgon? – Ingo H?lsmann

Elmire: Eva Meckbach

Tartuffe? – Lars Eidinger

Dorine: Cathlen Gawlich

Mariane? – ? ?Luise Wolfram

Damis? ­– Franz Hartwig

Val?re? – Tilman Strau?

Cl?ante – Kay Bartholom?us Schulze

Madame Pernelle – Felix R?mer

Monsieur Loyal – Urs Jucker

Direction – Michael Thalheimer

Stage Design – Olaf Altmann

Costume Design – Nehle Balkhausen

Dramaturgy – Bernd Stegemann

Light Design – Erich Schneider

Music? – Bert Wrede

Duration: 1h 45 min

Premiere: December 20th, 2013

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»So terrific the devil would love it.« Irene Bazinger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 23rd, 2013

»This religious fundamentalist [Tartuffe], who, in his finest performance to date, Lars Eidinger portrays with such consuming euphoria and fanatical desire, throws everything out of whack.« ?Irene Bazinger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 23rd, 2013

»It is an overwhelming piece gone beserk that Michael Thalheimer and the ten actors pull off with delirious lunacy, anarchic recklessness and formal brilliance.«? Irene Bazinger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 23rd, 2013

»Michael Thalheimer’s frenzied direction is funnier than the devil would ever admit and more diabolic than God would allow – and above all, a wonderful, riveting night at the theater.« Irene Bazinger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 23rd, 2013

»More ‘bravo’s, cheers and wild applause at a stage premiere in Berlin than for ages.« Peter Claus, dpa, December 20th, 2013

»A great stage production ends the theater season […] thanks to Michael Thalheimer.« Maria Ossowski, Rbb Inforradio, December 23rd, 2013

»Those who finally want to experience this star of the stage and screen [Lars Eidinger] as the ultimate liberator now have a chance to do so at the Berliner Schaub?hne.«? Christine Wahl, spiegelonline, December 21st, 2013

» Michael Thalheimer’s production of Tartuffe doesn’t have to feign anything. The abysmally filthy, depraved and disoriented zombies assembled here don’t want to expose anything. They want to be redeemed.« ?Christine Wahl, spiegelonline, December 21st, 2013

»So fantastically tight. So piercingly caustic. So ruthlessly funny.« Hans-Dieter Sch?tt, Neues Deutschland, December 28th, 2013

»Eidinger‘s sublime dance on the cutting edge.« Hans-Dieter Sch?tt, Neues Deutschland, December 28th, 2013

»The role of the fundamentalist enticer seems to have been written expressly for Lars Eidinger.«? Katrin Pauly, Morgenpost, December 23rd, 2013

»The highlight of the evening […] is Olaf Altmann’s sensational stage design.« Katrin Pauly, Morgenpost, December 23rd, 2013

»Thalheimer’s direction is stylistically convincing in its rather dismal analysis of the balance of power as far as desires and wishes are concerned and which are a far cry from the Christian concept of brotherly love.«? Peter Laudenbach, S?ddeutsche Zeitung, December 24th, 2013

»Lars Eidinger plays him with knees shaking, aglow with virility and locution.« Wolfgang Behrens, nachtkritik, December 20th, 2013

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