Feb 17– Tartuffe by Molière (1664) translated by Curtis Hidden Page
Summary: A con-man ingratiates himself into a wealthy household.Probably to seduce the daughter, if I'm reading the foreshadowing correctly. We're only on Act 1.
Commentary: Interesting camera work in this production. I wonder how (if?) you could do the first person style on stage. It does cut/rearrange the script pretty heavily. I like Damis just casually dumping a love quadrangle (pentagon?) in one line at the start of scene 4. Very economical. It's nice to see they had creepy cults of personality around con-men in 17th century France as we do today. That's one of the most comforting things about T5FSOB, all the awful crap going on in the world today looks a lot like the awful crap from 200+ years ago, and we're still spinning through space. Hopefully we can keep chipping away at it a little bit at a time.
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