Tartuffe - What if we don't see Tartuffe as a comedy, but as an epilogue of a family which, at its very end, found a reason to stay together a little longer, even though it’s because of Tartuffe and even though he’s a hypocritical liar that very imperceptibly carries out his plot in favor of acquiring material goods? 

This was the graduation exam of acting students, under the mentorship of assoc. prof. art. Krešimir Dolenčić and external collaborator Dado Ćosić. These are engaged in a thorough analysis of the relationship between the characters of the Orgons family, which the students built during the months-long process of researching the text, the space and the story. Initially starting from a perspective inherent to realism, one would often hear questions like, "Where is Tartuffe now?" Or "Why is Tartuffe here honest?" Or "How does Orgon allow this to a companion?" Or "What happened to the mother of his children?" Unable to find an answer, the assumption was that we might be ‘writing too much meaning’ into everything that makes the text a comedy. But does this mean that one large segment of household relations should be neglected? Because it is impossible to forget a number of such problems, it soon became clear to everyone that Tartuffe should not be seen as a comedy culminating in the comic life of a dysfunctional family, but as a modern text with a modernized theme of finding a way out of the labyrinth of intolerance. 
Finally, what happens after Tartuffe leaves? How to survive in a world without Tartuffe? 

Languages of the activity: screening in Croatian, Q&A in English.

Organised by Rok Juričić, student of Acting at the University of Zagreb.