Newfie Tartuffe

 

 

Molière's Tartuffe, an excellent play and one of my all-time favourites, has been adapted by Andy Jones and some other wonderful Newfoundland zanies. The set was lovely, the acting excellent, and the whole idea of transposing Tartuffe and his hypocrisy to 1939 Newfoundland was brilliant. Andy Jones as Tartuffe was great and both the maid, Dorine, played by Petrina Bromley, and Madame Pernelle, Orgon's (Jamaican!) mother, played by Quancetia Hamilton, nearly stole the show.

I wasn't sure it would work, but it was a grand time!