Tartuffe, Theatre Royal Haymarket review - dual-language production loses its way
Parlez-vous Moliere? His greatest comedy falls flat in a bilingual versionThe idea of producing a classic play in a mix of two languages is pretty odd. What kind of audience is a bilingual version of Molière's best-known comedy aiming at, you wonder. Homesick émigrés? British francophiles with rusty A-level French? Neither constituency is likely to be satisfied by this curious dish that is neither fish nor fowl.