TARTUFFE: Saturday, March 23, 2024, 7:30 PM
Pavilion Theatre on the Penn State Campus
RESERVE TICKETS BY MARCH 7TH, 2024 by calling Josie Kantner at the Sight-Loss Support Group, 814-238-0132 or sign up at the monthly Sight-Loss Support Group Luncheon. Indicate if you will need a ticket for your companion.

Tartuffe is a sanctimonious scoundrel who, professing extreme piety, is taken into the household of Orgon, a wealthy man. Under the guise of ministering to the family’s spiritual and moral needs, he almost destroys Orgon’s family.

Tartuffe

Date & Time: March 23, 2024 from 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM

Event Sponsors: Penn State Centre Stage , School of Theatre , Performances

Location: Pavilion Theatre
Other Dates: Mar 19 Mar 21 Mar 22 Mar 27 Mar 28 Mar 29 Mar 30

By Molière, translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur
Directed by Sam Osheroff

Tartuffe is a charlatan disguised as a zealot, a sensualist masquerading as an ascetic, a wolf dressed as a lamb. In the guise of a holy man, he worms his way into the good graces of Orgon, a wealthy and gullible man of faith. Once there, he wreaks havoc on Orgon's house and home, devouring his food, stealing his money and dividing his family.

To Orgon, Tartuffe is the very picture of piousness, concerned only with the soul, but Orgon’s family see through the act; to them he is a con man, a grifter, a dark and malevolent actor who uses his feigned religious zeal to take advantage of people’s good nature. Sinner or saint, Tartuffe is nothing if not divisive. ~Sam Osheroff

https://arts.creativeservices.psu.edu/events/tartuffe-4