Press Release
French farce and Liverpool prose - English Touring Theatre
presents Roger McGough’s reworking of Molière’s scathingly
funny classic, TARTUFFE
Listings
Tartuffe
Tue 4 – Sat 8 Oct
Tue - Sat eves 7.30pm, Wed & Sat mats 2.30pm
RICHMOND THEATRE
The Green, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1QJ
Box Office: 0844 871 7651 (fees apply)
www.atgtickets.com/richmond (fees apply)
Tickets - £16 - £26 (Premium seats available)
Press Night – Tue 4 Oct, 7.30pm
STAGETEXT Captioned Performance and Post-Show Talk - Thu 6 Oct 7.30pm
Audiences are in for a treat when that master of wit Roger McGough dips his magic quill, adapting Molière’s sublime
comedy Tartuffe. The play opens at Richmond Theatre on Tue 4th October, for one week only.
Following the success of their 2009 version of Molière’s The Hypochondriac English Touring Theatre, Winner of The
Stage 100 Award: Producer of the Year 2010, has once again reunited with the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse for this
tour of Molière’s famous comedy Tartuffe, adapted by ‘Liverpool’s Poet Laureate’ Roger McGough.
Tartuffe is a beacon of piety and has his feet firmly under the table in the home of wealthy merchant Orgon. But all is not
as it seems and as Orgon becomes enraptured with Tartuffe the whole city is chattering. Is he friend, fraud, miracle or
hypocrite? The family smell a rat and amid the frills and frivolity of seventeenth century society, they hatch a cunning plan
to outwit the wily deceiver before he brings their house crashing down.
Directed by Gemma Bodinez and originally presented to massive critical and public acclaim in Liverpool, this scathingly
funny production reunites ETT with the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse following their hilarious joint production of Roger
McGough’s version of Molière’s The Hypochondriac in 2009.
The cast for Tartuffe includes Joseph Alessi, Hiran Abeysekera, Eithne Browne, Simon Coates, Annabelle Dowler, Ilan
Goodman, Rebecca Lacey, Emily Pithon and Alan Stocks.
Roger McGough first appeared on stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1963 as a monk in John Osborne's Luther
directed by Bernard Hepton. His first play The Commission directed by Peter James, was performed at the Everyman
theatre in 1967. The author of more than fifty books he is an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University and an
Honorary Professor at Thames Valley University, and has D.Litts from the universities of Liverpool, Hull and Roehampton.
In 2001 he was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Liverpool, along with Brian Patten and Adrian Henri, and in 2004
he was awarded a CBE for services to literature.
Director Gemma Bodinetz took up her post as Artistic Director for the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse in September
2003. Since then, she has directed Macbeth, The Kindness of Strangers, The Mayor of Zalamea and Intemperance at the
Everyman; No Wise Men, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Lady of Leisure, All My Sons,
Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac at the Playhouse and Yellowman on tour. Gemma previously worked at the Royal Court
Theatre and Hampstead Theatre, London.
Design is by Ruari Murchison; the composer is Conor Linehan; sound designer is Fergus O'Hare; lighting by Colin
Grenfell; and costume supervisor, Jacquie Davies.
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Marketing and Press Officer, on 020 8332 4521 or email charlottetwining@theambassadors.com
For review tickets please contact Rebecca Batten, Press & Marketing Assistant, 020 8332 4520 or email
rtmarketing@theambassadors.com
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