A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes, Tricycle Theatre
Molière's 1664 comedy Tartuffe transplanted to present-day Atlanta, Georgia: it sounds like an inspired idea. The hypocritical religious devotee becomes a charlatan preacher fleecing his flock, offering salvation in exchange for hard cash and a distinctly unpriestly grope. But Marcus Gardley's attempt to put a contemporary spin on a once incendiary play comes with a trying side order of cartoonish caricatures and cr…