Do you like old school Hollywood rat packers, making jokes about cigarettes and banging out the likes of Lady Is A Tramp and It Was A Very Good Year? If yes, then this show is pure bliss. If no, run away as fast as you can.
Amo’s Theatre most recent production brings us Molière’s classic French comedy: Tartuffe. This play tells us of this religious hypocrite who manages to enter into the sinful life of Orgon, the owner of a speakeasy masked as a church, who seeks redemption for his past life. Orgon is deluded by the apparent virtues of Tartuffe and places him above his wife and children, welcomes him into his house and so we are left to witness the damage this devout liar inflicts on this family’s life. The advantage of this play is that its words and message of falsehood and hypocrisy seem to be timeless, it is easy to make sense of it in the modern times or, in a more creative twist, to set it in 1929 in Louisiana as director Chris Lawson chose to do.
Nancy Meckler has created a fantastic adaptation of Strindberg’s Dance of Death. This wonderfully black comedy is a roller coaster of emotion from start to finish!
