'Tartuffe: Born Again’ in the American South kicks up its heels at Theatricum Botanicum

Freyda Thomas adapts Moliere’s ‘Tartuffe’ with an American twist in a winning production at Topanga’s beloved Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

I’ll confess that it took me a moment to realize that “Tartuffe: Born Again,” one of the offerings in Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum’s 2024 repertory season, is actually quite an entertaining production. Nature is my excuse. The bucolic beauty of this beloved outdoor amphitheater in Topanga distracted me from the agreeable, lighthearted update of Moliere's classic. But comedy and setting eventually come into balance.

The production opens with a musical prelude that draws campy inspiration from such 1980s icons as Olivia Newton-John and Richard Simmons. The costumes by Vicki Conrad set up a world that’s part “Saturday Night Fever,” part Jane Fonda aerobics video. As the farce gains speed, Orgon dons a pink suit that looks like it might be radioactive. Elmire , Orgon’s younger wife, is dressed for a Pedro Almodóvar-style nervous breakdown.

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