Tartuffe, or, The imposter [videorecording] / by Moliere ; a Royal Shakespeare Company production ; a BBC TV presentation in association with Stratford Barbican Television Productions ; producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Bill Alexander.

Imposter.

[Encino, Calif.] : RKO Home Video : Distributed by Opix Video, 2005, c1984.

English

1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

PN1997 .T373 2005

791.45

4002 RKO Home Video

Clutching ever-present rosary beads, shifting uncomfortably within the hairshirt he wears as continual penance--and always eyeing the women as they pass--Tartuffe, Moliére's master of unctuous evil, insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian household in this indictment of religious hypocrisy. Posing as a holy man, the wily Tartuffe entrances Orgon, a credulous well-to-do merchant, bent on bestowing his worldly goods, social position, and nubile daughter on the perfidious fraud. Tartuffe delights in accepting it all--and also arranges a little depraved dalliance with Orgon's young wife, Elmire.

Translated and adapted by Christopher Hampton; music arranged by Alex Winterson and played by Simon Couzens.

Antony Sher (Tartuffe), Nigel Hawthorne (Orgon), Alison Steadman (Elmire), Sylvia Coleridge, Stephanie Fayerman, Michael Maloney, Lesley Sharp, David Bradley, Sara Mair-Thomas, Ian Talbot, John Tramper, Robin Meredith, David Glover.

Antony Sher (Tartuffe), Nigel Hawthorne (Orgon), Alison Steadman (Elmire), Sylvia Coleridge, Stephanie Fayerman, Michael Maloney, Lesley Sharp, David Bradley, Sara Mair-Thomas, Ian Talbot, John Tramper, Robin Meredith, David Glover.

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