Tartuffe
Drama
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière

Tartuffe

Staging this classical text of the great master of comedy in a new translation by Primož Vitez and directed by Vito Taufer, who has already directed a whole series of successful plays in the Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica, tries to situate the story in the context of contemporary times and the unbearable lightness of manipulation that we are facing in our daily existence

Tartuffe

Staging this classical text of the great master of comedy in a new translation by PrimožVitez and directed by Vito Taufer, who has already directed a whole series of successful plays in the Slovene National Theatre Nova Gorica, tries to situate the story in the context of contemporary times and the unbearable lightness of manipulation that we are facing in our daily existence. Orgon, a major tragicomic character of the play, is the head of the rich bourgeois family while a pious fraud Tartuffe infiltrates in it thanks to Orgon’s gullibility, pretending to be a strict Christian moral arbiter of all events in the house, whilethere are much more prosaic motives on his mind ...

Vito Taufer, director of the Slovene National Theatre Nova Goricastaging this play, read Molière's work as a psychological thriller: "It is about an extreme psychological analysis of relationships between the characters, and there lies the comedy of characters. Therefore we decided to deepen it and try to read it in the context of psychology as understood today. Because today we live in perverse times in which the values have been distorted and false. In today's world it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between the truth anda lie, borders have disappeared. Living in such a moral swamp enables manipulators to step onto thestage and operate with half-truths holding the world in complete absurdity. This is what we are striping bare through Molière's psychological thriller ".

 

Ticket price: 100 kn

Authors' team

Director Vito Taufer
Translation, author of adaptation and dramaturge  Primož Vitez
Set Design Matej Stupica
Costume Design Barbara Stupica
Music Aleksandar Pešut Shatzi
Light Design Samo Oblokar
Assistant Director Tatjana Peršuh
Production SNG Nova Gorica

Uloge

Madam Pernelle, Mother of Orgon  Teja Glažar
Orgon, Husband of Elmire Gojmir Lešnjak - Gojc 
Elmire, Wife of Orgon  Helena Peršuh
Damis, Son of Orgon Peter Harl
Mariane, Daughter of Orgon and the fiancée of Valère Urška Taufer 
Valère, the fiancée of Mariane  Nejc Cijan Garlatti
Cléante, brother-in-law of Orgon Iztok Mlakar
Tartuffe, the Hypocrite Radoš Bolčina
Dorine, Mariane’s housemaid Ana Facchini
Monsieur Loyal, a bailiff Žiga Udir
Laurent, Servant of Tartuffe   Andrej Zalesjak
Flipote Loquillo (owner of a dog Eduardo Ley)
Also performing  Dean Petrovič, Bogdan Repič