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Tartuffe (Playscript)
Molière’s exuberant seventeenth-century classic is brought back to life in an audacious contemporary Irish version by Frank McGuinness.
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Summary
Let’s see how crafty a picture you paint.
You’re making a demon out of a saint.
In this spectacular dramatic comedy, the villainous Tartuffe shocks and enthrals with his deceptive powers. Charming to some, a danger to others, one family risks losing everything if he gets his way.
Molière’s exuberant seventeenth-century classic is brought back to life in an audacious contemporary Irish version by Frank McGuinness. Tartuffe premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in March 2023.
Critic Reviews
Effervescent . . . Frank McGuinness’s limber new version of the text [is] an impressive feat of rhyming that achieves the structure of the original.
Critic Reviews
An experiment in tone that pays off nicely . . . brilliantly funny . . . The text is carefully balanced between Molière’s period and 2023 . . . gives you plenty to chew on.
Critic Reviews
Frank McGuinness’s version of Molière’s comedy . . . weaves a textured moral tapestry where the fools and gadabouts have as little to recommend them as the knave . . . captures the rhythm of Molière’s rhyming couplets.
Critic Reviews
One of France’s most beloved plays, Tartuffe is also one of its most adapted, with McGuinness’s muscular script holding its own with the best of them . . . [Its] use of Irish colloquialisms enrich[es] the experience; [an] example of McGuinness’s playful genius.
Critic Reviews
Edgy, irreverent and witty.
FrankMcGuinness
Frank McGuinness was born in Buncrana, Co. Donegal, and now lives in Dublin and lectures in English at University College Dublin. His plays include: The Factory Girls (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1982), Baglady (Abbey, 1985), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Abbey, 1985; Hampstead Theatre, London, 1986), Innocence (Gate Theatre, Dublin, 1986), Carthaginians (Abbey, 1988; Hampstead, 1989), Mary…
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