Tartuffe review – lavish arrival of Frank McGuinness’s take on Molière
Placing modern tech in the baroque setting, Caitríona McLaughlin’s production emphasises artifice but leaves the central message unmoored
November 2022
Anthony Burgess translation of Molière’s The Miser comes to light for first time
The A Clockwork Orange author’s translation – complete with recording – hailed as significant literary discovery
May 2022
Dom Juan review – Molière’s lothario gets lost in translation
Marking the French playwright’s 400th anniversary, this chaotic bilingual comedy lacks clarity
April 2022
Molière 2022 review – France’s greatest playwright comes home
In an innovative and risk-taking 400th anniversary season, Ivo van Hove and others explore the comic master’s endless variety
January 2022
Britain’s indifference to Molière’s 400th is no surprise but it’s still shameful
Michael Billington
Paris’s ‘House of Molière’ wishes happy 400th birthday to French theatre legend
February 2021
Spotlight on
Zainab Hasan: a remarkable star calling time on stereotypes
In our new series profiling exciting theatre talents, the actor-writer remembers lessons from Phyllida Lloyd and rapping in Molière
September 2020
Brief letters
Can maths get us out of this mess?
Brief letters: Maths genius | Sir Hartley | Philanthropy | Molière | Rule of six
March 2020
Lockdown culture
L'École des femmes review – #MeToo times add bite to Molière comedy
A controlling fool in love comes across more like a sexual predator in this engagingly perceptive Stéphane Braunschweig production for France’s Théâtre de l’Odéon
November 2019
Research overturns consensus that Molière did not write his own plays
Analysis by French academics finds scant evidence to support accepted view that the classic plays were written by a better educated man
February 2019
Tartuffe: The Imposter review – a radical Molière for an era of inequality
In John Donnelly’s new translation, the great comedy is less about religion and more a sharply characterised study of bourgeois guilt
September 2018
Tartuffe review – RSC's buoyant satire of modern religious hypocrisy
This striking new take on Molière by the writers behind Citizen Khan sends up religious phoniness and secular pretension
June 2018
'Trump is a Tartuffe': why Molière's banned blockbuster got an update
Star Audrey Fleurot and playwright Christopher Hampton talk about his reboot of the hard-hitting moral comedy set in post-Weinstein America
May 2018
Tartuffe review – bilingual production squanders Molière's wit and wisdom
Christopher Hampton’s erratic California-set adaptation features strong performances by Audrey Fleurot and Paul Anderson, but its lack of coherence is not just linguistic
April 2017
Don Juan in Soho review – David Tennant seduces all
Tennant is dissolution personified in Patrick Marber’s brilliant update of his 2006 take on Molière
March 2017
Don Juan in Soho review – David Tennant dazzles as a desolate hedonist
Tennant brings a beguiling, fleet-footed charm to Molière’s libertine, reinvented as DJ in Patrick Marber’s subversive update
The Miser review – a Molière mugfest
Heavily laboured jokes sink Griff Rhys Jones and Lee Mack in this 17th-century comedy of manners
The Miser review – Griff Rhys Jones presides over a relentless gag-fest
The audience is clobbered into submission by an anything-for-a-laugh Molière adaptation that casts Lee Mack – in his theatre debut – as the sane one
May 2016
Thon Man Molière review – Lochhead's lurid tragicomedy brings lots of laughs
Scandalous affairs and royal tiffs abound in this excellently acted, Scots-tinted take on the brilliant but self-destructive French playwright
October 2015
A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes review – treads too softly
Marcus Gardley’s reworking of Molière’s Tartuffe has spark, but lacks drive
