Cleante

Male | Unspecified | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 17

EXTRACT: I am not at all an oracle, even less a Socrates./I don't have all the answers. I know you like to mock. But these/ Are questions of judgment: what is false and what is true;/ And searching for that difference is what we all must do./ There's nothing that I value more than a truly honest mind,/ And the passion of a true belief is something that I find/ Inspiring. At the same time, there's nothing I hate more/ Than a sanctimonious liar or evangelistic bore;

Tartuffe

Male | Unspecified | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 40

EXTRACT: Ah! I may be devout, but I'm every inch a man!/ For when we set our eyes on the most heavenly of charms,/ Reason deserts us utterly, and leaves us in the arms/ Of a very natural force, with its own mind, and plan./ Oh Madame, I'm no angel; I'm human, and of male gender,/ And if you will condemn the frank confession I have made,/ You must also condemn your charms; it's through them I have strayed.

Elmire

Female | Unspecified | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 55

EXTRACT: Oh, if you'd let that little knockback put you off your game,/ You don't know much about women and what keeps their heart aflame./ Don't you realise what is really meant by an unconvincing "No."/ Our sense of shame can be at war with our desire, you know,/ One voice, that of reason, wants to tame this urge to love,/ While another voice whispers gently: What are you frightened of?

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ARTICLE: TARTUFFE: RHYMING COUPLETS, PIETY AND IMPROPRIETY

BEN NEUTZE, THE DAILY REVIEW, 1 JULY 2014

"According to Evans, the way Tartuffe looks at hypocrisy and the relationship between religion and money is as pertinent as it’s ever been."

REVIEW: THE HYPOCRITE | MELBOURNE THEATRE COMPANY

CAROL MIDDLETON, AUSTRALIANSTAGE.COM.AU, 14 NOVEMBER 2008

"What a novel way to tart up a dusty seventeenth-century play, a favourite with Louis XIV."

REVIEW: JUSTIN FLEMING TRANSLATES MOLIERE’S TARTUFFE...

JOHN MCCALLUM, THE AUSTRALIAN, 1 AUGUST 2014

"...The cheerful success of Justin Fleming’s version, in a lively production by Peter Evans, is a considerable achievement. Fleming has translated it all into thumping English verse with an Australian and often scatalogical vernacular that is clever and funny. Just listening to the performers deliver it would be entertainment enough."

REVIEW: TARTUFFE | BELL SHAKESPEARE

AUGUSTA SUPPLE, 24 AUGUST 2014

"This is Bell Shakespeare at it’s best – smart, funny, relevant, epic, sexy, saucy, cheeky, brutal fun."

REVIEW: MOLIèRE'S SATIRE AUSTRALIANISED BUT NOT BRUTALISED

JESSICA KEATH, THE GUARDIAN, 31 JULY 2014

"Fleming’s adaptation is as sophisticated as it is bracing. He has ripped into Molière’s original with gusto, whisking us off on a hysterical journey of rhyming verse."