Tartuffe! Oct. 7-23, 2005 Professional Equity Theatre Presentation
The Tartuffe!
Group - Professional Equity Play perfomed at Centenary
Stage Company Oct. 7 - 23, 2005
Tartuffe!! a classic comedy by Moliere. A con man poses as
a religious guru and insinuates himself into the home of a well to
do gentleman. Over the course of the play, he schemes to seduce his
benefactors wife, marry his daughter and swindle him of all he possesses.
A classic tale of hypocrisy, seduction and greed.
The subjects of seduction, hypocrisy and greed sparked a ferocious
scandal after the first reading of Jean Baptiste Poquelin’ timeless
comedy, Tartuffe!. The controversy was so provocative that
years would go by before the play would pass the scrutiny of the ministers
of King Louis XIV. Religious hypocrisy was at the core of the controversy,
and the one of the driving issues of the play. But Poquelin, better
known to contemporary audiences as Moliere, slid by the censors by
peppering his now-famous comedy with all the hilarity of a situation
comedy today, with thwarted lovers, a bossy maid, an easily duped
husband, a controlling mother-in-law and the deviously self-righteous
Tartuffe himself, who is not at all as religious as he would like
his hosts to believe. CSC’s production of Tartuffe!
will be directed by CSC Artistic Director, Carl Wallnau, and will
be performed Oct. 7 through 23rd.
(Left to right) Amanda Baker is "Elmire",
Robert Grossman is "Orgon" and Osborn Focht is "Tartuffe"
in rehearsal for the comic satire that enraged the religious
censors in the 17th Century, Tartuffe! by Moliere,
directed by Carl Wallnau, at the Centenary Stage Company in
Hackettstown, Oct 7 - 23rd.
One of Moliere's most famous satires, Tartuffe! unmasks
the true motives of those religious impostors who have plagued and
manipulated people through out the ages. Pretending to be a religious
devotee, Tartuffe! manages to bully his way into a rather
normal household, disguising his own sexual appetite under a mask
of righteousness. Moliere peppers his comedy with all the classic
comedic characters such as the bossy maid, an easily duped husband,
a controlling mother-in-law, the absent minded young lovers, and
the deviously self righteous Tartuffe! who is not at all
as religious as his host believes him to be. CSC's production of
Tartuffe! will be directed by CSC Artistic Director, Carl
Wallnau.
"Carl Wallnau has directed his
gifted players with style and sharp comic timing... Amanda Baker
is charming as the gently scheming Elmire... As Damis, Orgon's
disinherited son, Christopher Conant provides an engaging rashness...
Colleen Smith Wallnau is outstanding as the acid-tongued Madame
Pennell...." Full
Review Naomi
Siegel NY
Times
The Cast
CSC is excited to have return to its stage many seasoned NY actors.
Osborn Focht who will play the lead role of Tartuffe! was
last seen at CSC in the production of Rounding Third last
season. Focht is a NY actor who has performed in many venues including
the Broadway stage. He has sung 5 seasons with the Philadelphia
Opera Co. and also was one of the Mervtones with Merv Griffin and
his orchestra under the direction of Mort Lidsey. Colleen Smith
Wallnau is also no stranger to the CSC stage. She has done over
5 CSC productions. Some of Colleen's NYC productions include Welcome
to our City at the Mint Theatre, Through Darkest Ohio
at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre as well as Crazy for You
on Broadway.
Madame Moliere/ Elmire …....……..……Amanda
Baker
Actor One/Damis………….…..…...
Christopher Conant
Second Actress/Dorine…... Carolyn Coulson Grigsby
First Actress/Mariane ……..………..Desiree
Fitzgerald
Third Actress/Mdm Pennell…. Colleen Smith Wallnau (B'way-Crazy
for You)
Third Actor/Valere………….……........………….
Leon Hill
Flipote……………………….……..........….
Kelian Glowacki
Stage manager/Officer………………...…...
Jim Aylward
Second Actor/Leante……….…..…..………
Steve Barron
Moliere/Tartuffe…………….………......…
Osborn Focht (B'way Capeman)
Official/Orgon…………….……….........
Robert Grossman
Aristocrat/King Louis/Loalle…….….....……Clark
Gookin
1st Stage Hand…………………….......Carly-Jean
Booker
"Art
for Art's Sake"
First Annual Art Gallery fundraiser Oct.
8 - 26
The Centenary Performing Arts Guild in union with local professional
artists will be hosting an art exhibit/sale entitled Art for
Art's Sake on the campus of Centenary College.The gallery
will be open Oct. 8th - through Oct. 26th in conjunction with
the Centenary Stage Company's season première of Tartuffe!.
Opening
Reception Oct.
8 6 pm - 8 pm
Open-Captioned Performance
This October, the Centenary Stage Company (CSC) , a professional,
Equity theatre in residence on the campus of Centenary College in
Hackettstown, NJ, will inaugurate its second wave of ACCESS services
for patrons with disabilities by offering CSC’s first Open-Captioned
Performances of the plays in the season. The Open Captioned
performances for the first two productions of the season will be
October 23 at 2:30 PM for Tartuffe, and Sunday, Nov. 20th
at 2:30 PM for Sight Unseen.
Performances
Orgon's religious house-guest, Tartuffe,
turns out to be not as proper as he pretended to be in the production
of Tartuffe! directed by Carl Wallnau (Photo from At
the Barnstormers Theatre production [New Hampshire], directed
by Carl Wallnau)
Tartuffe! will be performed Oct 7– 23 in the Centenary
Theatre on the campus of Centenary College in Hackettstown. Performances
are Fridays and Sat at 8 P.M., Sundays at 2:30 P.M., Thursdays at
7:30 p.m., with additional matinees on Fri., Oct 7 at 2:30 p.m.,
Wed., Oct 12 at 2:30 p.m., and Wed., Oct 19 at 11 a.m.
$22.50 for adults, $17.50 for
seniors/students and $15 for children under 12
Friday
$20.00 for adults, $17.50 for seniors/students and $15 for
children under 12
Other Evening Performances:
$17.50 for adults, $15 for seniors/students
and $12.50 for children under 12
Matinee showings
$17.50
Thursday (2 for 1 at the door the day of the show only):
$20
All Season Concerts:
$20.00 for adults, $17.50 for seniors/students
and $15.00 for children under 12
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through our Secure
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at 908-979-0900. Tickets are also available at Greene's Beans Coffee Shop on
High Street in Hackettstown.
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