Moliere: TARTUFFE

It was already on its opening night that Moliere's Tartuffe had set off a storm of reactions when the clerical circles of that time recognized themselves in the play. Up to the present day, this Moliere's text about the hypocrisy of the religious establishment has preserved its actuality for every society, the very reason why it rarely goes unnoticed and without reactions. Such is the case in the modern Serbia, too, where two big theatre houses - Srpsko narodno pozorište in Novi Sad and Jugoslovensko dramsko pozorište in Belgrade have staged the text. The Belgrade's play directed by Egon Savin will be shown during the Festival in Rijeka as a representative example of the engaged theatre which examines the text through the representation of its own society. In this vision, the Moliere's ending – a concession to potential censor's scissors - has been cut off; Tartuffe exits as a winner, we live in times where hypocrites reign, while the reach of the alleged justice's hand is short itself being corrupt and controlled by those same rulers.