"That Tartuffe has emigrated to England and opened a shop."

0121 643 0428 THEATRE Tartuffe FIRST performed in 1664, Moliere's classic play is brought bang up to date and set in Birmingham.The wealth Pervaiz family has welcomed the charismatic Tahir into their lives.

As part of its 40th anniversary celebration, Elgin's Independent Players will present Moliere's " Tartuffe ," a 17th century French comedy.

Caption: Kelsey Ronn (Dorine) & Nathan Sawatsky-Dyck in the title role of Opera NUOVA's Tartuffe

PEAKY BLINDERS actor Paul Anderson (Arthur Shelby) is to make his West End debut in a new adaptation of Moliere's Tartuffe .

The biggest appropriation in translating Tartuffe , is pulling it into the modern age.

Anyone who can justify leading the agency charged with protecting the environment while doing all he could to eliminate environmentalprotections isn't going to have too much trouble convincing himself that there's nothing wrong with making a deal with the devil for a cheap condo of putting himself in first-class seats on the taxpayers' dime nevermind the now-infamous phone booth and security detail.<br />Appointing Pruitt to head the EPA was like electing Tartuffe to the papacy.

But Asif Khan gives a splendid reading of Tahir Taufiq Arsuf (the Tartuffe character) and switching from Moliere's original Catholicism to modern day Islam, mocks the decline of Islam's former, all-embracing ( and tolerant) grandeur to its modern ultrapolitical, intolerant interpretation (in some quarters, but by no means all, let it be said immediately) as a violent, socially inhibiting exercise characterised by headscarves and terrorism.

Moliere et son premier Tartuffe : genese et Evolution d'une piece a scandale.

The volume provides not only an unabridged Physiology of Love but also the author's writings on medicine and travel, part of his novel One Day in Madeira, and his essay on materialist aesthetics; Pireddu (comparative literature and Italian, Georgetown U.) also includes excerpts from India, The Tartuffe Century, and The Year 3000: A Dream.

In this plot, Moliere (Romain Duris) is thrust into farcical situations which would later appear in his plays like Tartuffe and The Misanthrope.