[NEohioPAL] Kennelly Review: Tartuffe at CPH

[Laura Kennelly]

“Everything old is new again”—can still hold true—

So don’t turn away when *Tartuffe*, the current Cleveland Play House
production, is described as a “classic French farce.” It is and it isn’t.

Ranjit Bolt’s updated translation of Molière*’s *17th-century satire,
* Tartuffe*, directed by Jason O’Connell, sets the story in 1980s sitcom
land. The characters’ outlandish reactions mock fashion and reaction, teens
and adults, greed, and vanity, and, well—everything.

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*Bottom Line: CPH offers a lively engaging production of an old old story.
It’s not all that hard to relate to characters imagined by Molière. (All we**
have to do is look at the news.) A bit of laughter goes a long way and
sometimes, as the trite saying goes, it’ is the best medicine.*

*Full Review* at
https://coolcleveland.com/2026/04/theater-review-tartuffe-cleveland-playhouse-by-laura-kennelly/
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