This comedy by Molière, centred on the „pious man", his host Orgon and Orgon's wife Elmire (Katharina Hadem), and on hypocrisy, is the playwright's most frequently performed work. It was not always so. The first version, with its drastic and — for its day — revolutionary critique of religious hypocrisy, sparked a theatre scandal that led to the banning of both the first and a second version of the play, staged in 1667. Only a third version, substantially revised in its plot, won the support of Louis XIV and thereby escaped the censors.
Katharina Hadem in „Tartuffe" at the Schlosstheater Neuwied
